{"id":1438,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:14:32","slug":"anchoring-in-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchoring-in-a-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchoring in a Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">In your (absolutely fabulous!) Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia, you talk on page 46 about using a &#8220;Fortress to back up the Bruce in a hurricane&#8221; Would you link the Fortress to the Bruce via a chain trace? if so, what sort of length would you use? or would you run the Fortress on a completely separate chain back to the bow (with the risk of the chains winding around one another)? This is important to me because we have both anchors, plus a delta on our Fisher 32, and may be going into the tropics next year. Whilst we would aim not to be there in the cyclone season, I won&#8217;t go until I know what to do if we get one!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> I will be very grateful for your suggestions. Best regards, Stuart <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Stuart: My preference would be to use the anchors separately. This way you have some freedom for moving the boat away from danger &#8211; perhaps somebody drifting down onto your present position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> While the issue of twisting the rodes around each other is not to be lightly dismissed, you will typically have a pretty good feel for how the winds will vary during the storm and set the hooks accordingly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> Using two anchors on a single rode is typically done when you are leaving the boat unattended. The easiest way to do this is to shackle a short chain rode off the fluke of the Fortress to the head of the Bruce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> Lets hope this discussion stays theoretical! &#8211; Steve Dashew<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your (absolutely fabulous!) Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia, you talk on page 46 about using a &#8220;Fortress to back up the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/anchoring-in-a-hurricane\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-storm-tactics-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36382,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/36382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}