Anchor Anxieties
Thursday 8th October 2020
When we moved to our current location in Oyster Bay yesterday morning I took great care to position us between a catamaran (also anchored) and wooden sailboat on a mooring so that we wouldn’t come close to either as the wind turned from SW to NW. I find it hard to judge distances to other vessels by eye so I use the radar to locate them and measure the distance on the chart plotter. I thought we were in a perfect spot. It’s been blowing hard for the past 24 hours, although it’s started to settle down now, and you are always a little anxious to make sure the anchor doesn’t drag. But now I have a different concern. When we came back on board yesterday evening we seemed much closer to the catamaran than I expected (perhaps they let out more anchor chain). As the winds shifted to the NW he has now swung precisely over the place where we dropped our anchor. That wouldn’t be a problem, except we need to pull up the anchor in the morning and move on. The wind is expected to back to the west overnight so he may swing clear, but if not we’ll have to shout over and ask them to move out of our way. It’s all a bit embarrassing because there’s tons of room here in the harbor and no reason why we should have ended up so close. It’s all got me a bit stressed!
We had a great trip this morning to the “Shu Swamp Nature Preserve” – home of New York State’s tallest tree. It was tranquil and beautiful place. On the walk out and back we got to see some of the astonishing properties and multi-acre estates that pepper this area. The amount of wealth in this district is incredible. Once back in town we again descended on the Taco Bay restaurant for more excellent taco’s to take away. It begs the question … “if we stayed here a week would we eat taco’s every day?”
Mike
40 52.405 N, 73 32.407 W
Graffiti painted on a tree stump at the boundary of Shu Swamp
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