Naturism as selfdefence
This schooner I'd bought with practically the last of my money for f1500. One thing led to another and having little work but plenty of time myself and some friends sailed Gloria across the Atlantic. We had many adventures, not least was the oil pressure on the engine going AWOL. There my lady friend Helen re-joined us and one of the crew left.
Our next stop was the island of Bequia, the aviator book warned that the holding for the anchor in the main bay was not so good and to be careful of yachts dragging their anchors. We came in during a gale force squall, complete with flat rain (warm), without an engine the manoeuvre was a trifle challenging. However we didn't hit anything and came to rest in a relatively sheltered area. Myself and buddy Edmund donned snorkels and masks and dived to assess said anchor, it wasn't dug in very well at all, so I stacked some rocks on it. Afterward after surfacing we place another anchor out to make sure. The difficulty was that the sea bed was not very deep sand over coral, along with the anchor was having trouble biting.
A couple of nights later during another squall I 'd my slumber disturbed by the unmistakable sound of twin diesels going hard astern, on coming from my bunk and running topsides I saw a sizable catamaran quite close to our bow taking evasive action. He had clearly dragged his anchor and just managed to miss us and retrieve his equipment before going off to try again someplace else.
This scenario was rein acted many times over our stay in the assorted Isles. beach bum didn't drag, with no engine we could not afford to, so we put down tons of chain and an additional anchor at every stop. However, after we got hit by two yachts one night in precisely the same time, I concluded to find a solution to this issue. beach freedom will enjoy the answer I found to this problem.
The group of yacht uses we'd most trouble with were the ones who charter their yachts, some of these individuals never have had a great deal of experience in Anchoring, and there's rather plenty of technology to what on the surface appears a easy manoeuvre. These people, tend not to have spent big amount of time in close proximity to other people as in a small yacht environment. These people are the sort which haven't come face to face with bare human bodies except in some specific situations. In nudism discovered that if I appeared naked in the cockpit while I read a novel and waved to the newly arriving charter yachts of an evening, they'd go right over to the other side of the bay, "hey presto" problem sorted!)
