{"id":2313,"date":"2008-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:49:24","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew540\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ultimate Anchorage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Clearing grass from the anchor&#8230;then discovering an unnamed Greenland anchorage that tops the Dashews&#8217; list of ultimate anchorages around the world.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The fog and southerly winds having helped us decide to revisit the area around Hamborgerland Island, we have worked our way into a protected cove across the channel from the spectacular mountains we wrote about a few weeks ago. Depths are shallow, and for a change we have swinging room.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/hambgr_achr1-19-105.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, for the first time, the ROCNA anchor does not dig in right away. We bring it up to check and find a ball of long grass.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/hmbrglnd_anchor2-3-104.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We have the typical high latitude kelp knife arrangement for such moments. In this case, a bread knife wire tied to a telescoping deck brush handle.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/hambgr_achr1-22-106.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>While this works great on kelp, on weed it is too flexible. Linda cuts off the long strands, and then we drop the anchor back in the water and reverse the boat to strip off the majority of debris by dragging (this will not work with kelp, which must be cut). The second time we set the hook using five to one scope, so it has a better chance to penetrate (the first time we used three to one). This works, after which we shorten up to three to one.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking across at the the north side of Hamborgerland Island. On the chart there is an enclosed cove shown at the confluence of two of the glaciers, but no soundings. Thinking that if we could find a spot to anchor, this would make a great photo, we work our way across the channel and give the cove entrance a look with sonar. The entrance is only 100 feet (30m) wide, but it carries a depth of 50 feet (15m), and in we go.<\/p>\n<p>We spend half an hour doing a sonar survey. The center of the basin is several hundred (60m) deep. There are anchorable depths around the perimeter. We set the hook in 65 feet (20m) and back down hard to set the anchor firmly. And then launch the dinghy to see what we have.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/hambgr_achr2-128-102.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here is one view. Not too bad. Maybe even a top five in our entire database of anchorage photos.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/hambgr_achr2-147-103.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A different view. Can&#8217;t decide which we like better.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/hambgr_achr2-15-99.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Or how about this?<\/p>\n<p>Totally protected, not another boat (or person) within many miles &#8211; you could stay in a place like this for a long time. On reflection, we have moved this unnamed anchorage to the top of the list, alongside Hanavave on Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas (with Southern Greenland still to come).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing grass from the anchor&#8230;then discovering an unnamed Greenland anchorage that tops the Dashews&#8217; list of ultimate anchorages around the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew540\/\">&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}