Real product names, real weights, real prices. The ground tackle list I'm building before the boat — and where I'd spend more than the chart says to.
Most anchoring failures aren't anchor failures. They're chain failures, snubber failures, or the wrong-size anchor. Here's the 30-minute audit before your first overnight of the season.
Polarised glasses, the right anchor, and a chain-float trick the Tuamotus crowd has been using for decades.
Nothing ends a good cruise faster than a dragged anchor at 0300. Your ground tackle is the single most important piece of safety equipment on a bluewater cruising
Choosing the right anchor for your bluewater cruiser is the kind of decision that gets argued about at every yacht club bar from Annapolis to Auckland. The anchor
Cruising into tropical waters usually means dropping the hook over coral at some point. It shouldn't, and in increasingly many places it isn't even
The anchor is the single most important piece of equipment on a bluewater cruising boat. It is the difference between a peaceful night and a 3 a.m.
The subject of a second anchor generates more confident opinion-giving and less careful thinking than almost any other topic in cruising. Somewhere in the collective unconscious of bluewater
Every cruising sailor eventually discovers that ground tackle is not a commodity. A 45-pound anchor with three-eighths chain is not the same as another 45-pound anchor with the
There are Caribbean islands you visit, and Caribbean islands that get under your skin. Martinique is firmly in the second category. This French overseas department delivers what few
South of St. Vincent, below the charter-boat highway, the island chain takes a breath. Grenada and the Grenadines offer bluewater cruisers something increasingly rare in the Caribbean: anchorages
It happens so quickly that you almost do not believe it. You row ashore for a meal, tie your dinghy to the dock, and come back two hours
