{"id":11663,"date":"2010-06-17T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2010-06-18T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:08:29","slug":"anchoring-in-heavy-weed-and-kelp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchoring-in-heavy-weed-and-kelp\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchoring In Heavy Weed and Kelp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cabo-Santa-Cruz-Spain-86.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cabo-Santa-Cruz-Spain-86.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cabo-Santa-Cruz-Spain-86.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cruising in the old world means lots of interesting boat watching, the best of which is usually provided by the charter fleets. Two of these yachts joined us and tried to anchor on a bottom that had a nice growth of kelp, which you can see on their anchor. The two boats spent an hour trying to get a good bite, then retired to a nearby marina. The answer to their dilemma is easy. More scope. If you normally set the hook with a scope of five to one, use six or seven if the anchor gives indication of not digging in. Then, once you have backed down on the hook under power and confirm it is well dug in, winch back the extra chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruising in the old world means lots of interesting boat watching, the best of which is usually provided by the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchoring-in-heavy-weed-and-kelp\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}