The wind blew all night from the NW and continued to blow hard all day although it was sunny. Around noon Dora saw that we were dragging anchor and moving toward the south shore and some docks at rapid pace. I ran forward and dropped our second anchor, a Delta, on an all chain rode. It caught immediately, stopping us about 30 yards off the docks in five feet of water.
The Delta anchor on a nylon rode never set as we were dragging and I was able to pull it in by hand without it catching. Dora used the windlass to pull the chain and Delta anchor on board while I motored forward away from shore. At first the boat didn’t move because the stern was aground.
We re-anchored deploying the Danforth first, setting it, and then lowering the Delta. Both anchors set quickly. Later I lowered a 40lb kellet down the anchor line to lower the pull on the Danforth. Wind gusts of 30mph continued all afternoon. John and Linda invited us to go out with them and we had some excellent pizza at Pizza John‘s.
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