Anchor Waypoints

February 2014

When we drop anchor our standard procedure (after lots of iterating) is for me to be at the helm and for Tim to be on the anchor.  When Tim drops the anchor, I drop a waypoint on the chart plotter to more or less mark right where the anchor drops.  It’s not exactly straightforward because our GPS unit isn’t right on the bow roller, it’s back by the helm, so depending on how deep the water is and how fast I’m backing down I hit the button about where I think the anchor will hit the ground.  Then we plug that location into our anchor alarm, so we have a more reliable way of detecting whether we are dragging with very few false alarms.  Of course, we haven’t dragged since we got our new anchor way back in La Paz, but better safe than sorry.

So, since we now have anchor waypoints for everywhere we’ve anchored I thought I’d start including them.  Not that they will be of much use to the 3 people who actually read my essays, but someday I may post them for other cruisers, so I thought I’d start collecting them here.  And this installation isn’t very exciting because we didn’t really go anywhere.  (Dates are yearmonthday)

20140206 PuntaDeMita 20 45.930 N 105 31.205 W

20140204 LaCruz 20 45.010 N 105 22.045 W

20140122 LaCruz 20 44.995 N 105 22.149 W

20140123 PuntaDeMita 20 45.982 N 105 31.115 W

20131221 LaCruz 20 45.050 N 105 22.007 W