Posted on 03/23/2020 12:35:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A double masted sailboat has grounded off Waikiki on March 22.
The Coast Guard and other agencies worked on the best way to remove the 35-foot vessel.
There are no reports of pollution, but they say there are diesel, oil, and marine batteries on board.
According to the Coast Guard, the “Steady Beat” ran aground on Saturday afternoon, March 21, about 50 yards offshore of the Waikiki Reef Hotel after its anchor failed.
The two people on board were not injured.
I’ve never boated in the Pacific. Just FL now. When in shallow water I usually dive down to check the set. Some spots in west FL have a fine, soft sand that’s like quicksand. The anchor will go in up to the shank but won’t hold. Nearby will be good bottom so it’s just a re-set.
IMO anchoring near shore in shallow water is a great way to find out ‘little things’ about a boat’s condition and handling. It’s not the place to go to sleep. Did they not have a GPS drift alarm active?
yep!
No idea about GPS alarm in that case.
I nearly always dive my anchors, and I nearly always strive to anchor in less than 30’.
Plenty of times I reset them manually and shove them in, then back down in reverse, and check again.
It’s good for sleeping.
How do you mark your anchor rode?
Just curious, getting ready to mark mine.
I have this very interesting book called Disaster Log of Ships (James Gibbs). It features groundings and wrecks during the steam and sail age in the Pacific Northwest. The photos are amazing. One vessel floundered at the base of a cliff, all sails set. Turns out every single crew member was blind drunk. Another photos shows a crew hanging onto the shrouds after grounding ashore, much like the photo in your story. The waves were crashing too close to shore and too frequently to send boats out to rescue them, or even get a breeches buoy deployed. One by one they were picked off until no one remained.
I used to do all sorts of zany stuff but now use those nylon zip ties which will handle a zephyr in just about any in any zone.
Just keep ‘em off the bow roller.
Thanks - what colors/length do you mark?
I use 3 strand nylon rode, because it’s easy to splice eyes and thimbles for shackling them to anchors and to other rodes.
So I take strips of colored cloth or plastic, or even colored electrical tape doubled over on itself, and I open the 3 strands and pull the marker through. You can change colors for different lengths, like 50-150 one color, 100-200 another, whatever you decide. Dark and light, because you might not be able to tell yellow from white or blue from green at night.
Or you can put multiple markers, one for 50’, 2 for 100’, 3 for 150’ etc.
And I paint my chain, because rags or tape get chewed up too fast. A foot of white paint takes a while to wear off and is easily renewed. One 1’ stripe at 25’, 2 at 50’, etc. Quality white 3M elect tape is amazing, you can also pull a piece around a link and double it on itself, then mark it with a Sharpie. This will last for a while, not as long as paint, but it works.
Every boat needs plenty of white 3M or = electrical tape. Worth every penny many times over. Use it for a million things. Yellow and red also. Don’t leave port without it.
Oh, y’all are good!
Were the two people on board the Skipper and Gillian?
Hillbilly Hula Gal
—by Jamieson Brown (Junior Brown)
Way out on the islands with the coconut trees
With the pearly shells and the tropical breeze
There’s a hillbilly girl from Tennessee
My hillbilly hula gal
She’s had enough of the hills and me
So she’s takin’ hula lessons in Waikiki
I guess she’s right where she wants to be
My hillbilly hula gal
She dances with wahini’s in the islands now
She’s trying to do the hula but she don’t know how
She’s got the poniola’s in her own corral
She feeds them grits and gravy at the old luau
The Blue Grass hills and the Mountain Dew
Wait till she leaves Honolu’
She better come home like she’s s’posed to do
My hillbilly hula gal
Now she looks twice as good in a little grass skirt
As overalls and a tore up shirt
But corn don’t grow in lava dirt
My hillbilly hula gal
There’s smiles on the faces of the island boys
Cause her southern drawl gives a big enjoy
She can’t churn butter when she’s dippin’ that poi
My hillbilly hula gal
Now she never used to give a hoot
For coconuts or taro root
She’s a country gal living in the islands now
She’s trying to get the hula girl to show her how
When she gets through with this fantasy
C’mon on back to Tennessee
Back with me where she’s s’posed to be
My hillbilly hula gal... My hillbilly hu-ula gal!
“See how she’s listin’ there?”
“Yup.” “Uh huh...” “Yeah?”
“That means she’s leanin’ over t’one side.”
“M-hmm.” “Right...” “Got it.”
Thanks FRiend. Agreed, I’m stocked up with colored 3M tape!
I have 300’ of chain. I’ll use paint every 50’. I hadn’t thought of the color contrast at night. Probably red white & blue, just because.
Hmmm, no anchor watch I guess.
DOH Emergency Response? Dang, I’ll bet those guys really get tired of hearing the jokes day after day. Somebody wasn’t thinking.
Exactly right. Although my favorite method is to “anchor” on a mooring ball. It’s cheaper than replacing a boat.
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