sailtones
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2013
- Messages
- 97
- Location
- Montenegro
- Vessel Name
- Nostra Signora
- Vessel Make
- Marine Trader CHB 34DC
Having been in similar situations...from the diagram letting go of the port may have swung you out faster specially had both line been under a lot of tension (good power on)...but I wasn't there and it's hard to tell from the diagrams...but if they are accurate...my experience would have been on letting go the port first..the boat should have quick pivoted...tension on the anchor line would have accelerated the pivot.
Again just something to think about ....as every time/boat is a little different and you were successful...
Thanks for the thoughts.
I understand the way you are looking at it, but with 35 knots holding me on to the rock, plus increasing chop, the only way I could get off the rock in order to provide the required pivot room, was to use the port line as a spring. If the rock was not there, then yes I could have done it the other way around for sure, but the physical barrier of the rock simply did not allow me to pivot on the stb line.
The physics of the port line goes like this - as the boat comes ahead on the port line, it straightens it in relation to the transom, changing the 45 degree angle to 90 degrees, forcing the stern to stb, which it did, thus creating room between the boat and the rock, which then allowed me to swing to the poorly holding anchor after I cut the port line.
But thanks again for the input, nice to see others thinking about the situation and how to get out of it.
Maybe we should start a thread titled something like, 'how would you get out of this situation'.....?