Cruising sailors congregate in No Name Harbor, Key Biscayne, FL, awaiting a weather window to cross to the Bahamas. Boats invariably swing over other boats’ anchors here. Cruisers spending only one night and planning a pre-dawn departure might lay
a trip line and buoy to gain some room, but long term use of a conventional trip line would risk snagging and draw some ire.
An anchor trip line is a stout line connected from the after end of the anchor fluke to a marker buoy so that the anchor can later be retrieved. The length of the line is adjusted to be straight up and down at high tide level so that the float marks the approximate position of […]
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