Back in the days when we had not succumbed to the lure of an outboard for the dinghy, folks would often ask us why we anchored so far out in spite of having extreme shoal draft of around fourteen inches...
Partly, the answer involved the fact that I simply enjoyed rowing and being on the outside of the anchorage allowed me a longish row as part of my daily regime. Plus, since I was CRUISING the fact that getting into the dinghy dock took ten minutes versus 90 seconds hardly seemed like a problematic affair. A slower pace of life being part of the plan... ya know?
Then again, anchoring at the outside edge of the pack meant that we had a little more privacy, a little less chance of someone dragging into us, and a little more time if it was us doing the dragging ting...
It would also be fair to point out that anchoring further out meant that every other boat in the anchorage became instantly more attractive to brigands and villains with pilferage on their minds and heinous deeds in their hearts... Having grown up with no shortage of brigands and villains in my younger years, an early lesson was that most will avoid anything even remotely like work and many would consider a long swim a akin to drudgery.
Method to my madness, if you will...
Which is not to say that distance is our only protection from the brigand/villain mayhem that is all too prevalent in too many places these days... Keeping a low profile is part of it, and we are more than happy to leave it to others to be the rich Americans (spelled prey) in an anchorage.
Situational awareness is also a needful skill and well worth working on. If our "Spidey sense" does its thing you might be surprised just how fast we can up-anchor and be somewhere else...
Of course, we keep a watch when needful and our night watch crew likes nothing better than to kick some serious ass from time to time...
Listening to Jo Jo Gunne
So it goes...
