{"id":17226,"date":"2011-08-27T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=17226"},"modified":"2011-08-27T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T02:48:22","slug":"hurricane-irene-anchor-position-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hurricane-irene-anchor-position-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irene Anchor Position Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Irene Anchor Position Logic\" width=\"600\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve moved a short distance to the east and reset the anchor. Winds so far are east to northeast, at anything from a few to 25 knots. The drawing upper left represents the circulation of a northern hemisphere depression. As you can see, the wind direction we have indicates the track is to our left or west.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Irene Anchor Position Logic 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our logic is in choosing this spot is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have protection from ESE through NW, so we are covered if the hurricane veeres to the east of us.<\/li>\n<li>There is room to drag to leeward.<\/li>\n<li>We are (hopefully) far enough from shore to limit damage from flying debris.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-2-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-2-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Irene Anchor Position Logic 2 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bands of rain are showing up now on the radar. The question mark\u00a0 shape above is the anchorage and t he solid colors outside are dense rain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-112.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-112.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Irene Anchor Position Logic 112\" width=\"600\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This type of radar signature is typical of tropical storms. Right now the rain is pouring down, but in a few minutes it will be gone. Deck drains are open and we are filling the tanks.<\/p>\n<p>We are on a single anchor, our big ROCNA, with dual snubbers. One snubber is 50 feet (15m) long and made from 3\/4&#8243; (19m) nylon. The second is 7\/16&#8243; (11mm) and fifteen feet (4.5m). If we were in deep water, with a bit of chain catenary to soften shock load we&#8217;d not bother with snubbers. But here it is just seven feet (2.15m) so \u00a0we need a bit of elastic in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Both booms are out at a 45 degree angle, to provide aft windage. So far there \u00a0is very little shearing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-110.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irene-Anchor-Position-Logic-1101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Irene Anchor Position Logic 110\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a lovely dinner, good conversation, the first lightening and thunder of the party has arrived, and \u00a0now its is time for a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve moved a short distance to the east and reset the anchor. Winds so far are east to northeast, at <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hurricane-irene-anchor-position-logic\/\">&#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-17226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226"}],"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=17226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}