SNAFU

A very large sailboat was anchored in front and to the right of our group on Wednesday. He only had a bow anchor out so was swinging with the current. Our group of fifteen boats had bow and stern anchors so we were all fairly stationary. Thursday afternoon two large power boats showed up and rafted one on each side if the sailboat. No additional anchors were put out. We were somewhat concerned as they weren't all that far from our group.

The wind came up over night and some of our guys started an anchor watch. Good thing they did because about 1 am that group of three boats started sliding backwards in front of our raft up. Everyone in our group was quickly awoken and we all started honking and trying to hail the three. They stopped moving (their anchor hooked on the anchor lines of the two boats to our right) and shortly after we finally saw the crews come up. Two per boat.

Since neither powerboat had an anchor out they quickly freed themselves and disappeared in a cloud of diesel exhaust, leaving the two on the sailboat to try and disengage their anchor from our group. I hope you can see in the pictures- iPhones aren't really meant for night photos! Our group had a few spotlights on them. They finally got free and with a backwards yell of "champagne's on us tomorrow" they were gone. They didn't show up with the champagne today either!!

This led to SNAFU part two this morning when we tried to leave. All the folks from the left end of the raft up raised anchor and left but we were concerned our line was under that of the two boats to our right. I'll have to write that up from my computer as my hand is tired from typing with one finger on the phone!! There was a tangled mess oh three anchors but luckily we were clear of it.