Creative Anchoring: Everything About Anchors and Anchoring. This item is unavailable.Creative Anchoring: Everything About Anchors and Anchoring

This practical, down-to-earth, step-by-step instruction manual isn’t merely about the basic mechanics of how to anchor—but how to anchor safely, while enjoying your boat more comfortably, in a far greater number of exposed anchorages. It contains everything a cruising sailor needs to know—including the proper cruising attitude and philosophy in relation to international anchoring-as-a lifestyle—and much, much more! It takes a completely new, totally unique “sea gypsy” look at the art and science of anchoring in today’s shrinking world. And, it does it from the penny-pinching perspective of a confirmed “economically-challenged, ever-restless” World Cruiser. What other book on anchoring contains information on heaving-to, sea anchors, and Jordan Series Drogues? Flopper stoppers? Shore jackals? Dinghies? Anchor weights. Being tide-bound. The Etiquette of dragging. Landsharks. Snubbers. Doing WHAT to a coral head? Cheap DIY moorings. Arming your lead. Fish finders. Aground! Kedging off. Grappling hooks. Chain hooks. Lunch hooking. Hiding a sunken vessel under a floating vessel. Welding cables. Keep-away anchors. Free anchors. Cheap anchors. Free chain by the ton. Salvage. Karma! Sea Swine! Sex and Romance! Dirt Dwellers! What special precautions should you take while anchoring in very shallow water? How do you realistically anchor in 200 feet of depth? And what is the Key Concept to being able to anchor safely—year-after-year—where most sane yachties fear to tread? This is a book that only Cap’n Fatty would dare pen—written in his own inimitable, laid-back style.

Cap’n Fatty Goodlander is an award winning marine journalist who has lived 55 of his 63 years aboard various cruising sailboats—the vast majority of those years setting to his own anchors in remote tropical harbors. He is currently an Editor-at-Large of Cruising World magazine. He has sailed more than 100,000 ocean miles and is currently on his third circumnavigation. Along the way, he has written numerous cruising yarns and technical marine books, including "Chasing the Horizon" and "BUY, OUTFIT, and SAIL" - How to Inexpensively and Safely Buy, Outfit, and Sail a Small Vessel Around the World. As this edition goes to press, Fatty and his wife, Carolyn, are exploring Southeast Asia aboard their ketch-rigged Amphitrite 43 Ganesh—and anchoring each night along the way.