You Have A Brain!

     Just wanted to mention a few observations from the past weeks:

  When you stop for the day at a anchorage, don't just drop the anchor and your rode in one spot.  Drop the anchor, layout how much rode you will be using as you backdown from the anchor spot and then "set" the hook.  This will eliminate most cases of dragging the hook.

     Speaking of dropping the hook in an anchorage for the night, don't squeeze in next to me and another boat when there is open water all around us.

     If you are a delivery captain on a tight schedule or you have a power boat, please do not sacrifice the rest of us to Neptune with your large wakes that will rearrange our galley.

     If you have a sailboat, I don't care how many sails you have out if you are running under power from an internal combustion engine or another source you can no longer clam sailboat status - your are a motor vessel.

     Just because you have a boat does not mean you have a brain!