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For today we didn’t have anything significant planned and were leaving Princess Inlet and heading over to the town of Mahone bay only 5 miles away just around the corner. We had a pretty relaxing morning and were invited over to Island Girl for Breakfast. After a delicious breakfast I ran John and Rita into the club for showers and ice while Joyce grabbed a shower on the boat. I decided to head back out to Rose lee and would return for John and Rita when they gave us a shout a bit later. Upon returning to Rose Lee Joyce had just begun having a shower when one of our tanks went dry. I ran below to swap out to another tank and after a few minutes had everything sorted out. I returned to the cockpit to relax and enjoy the nice morning with just a light breeze. Well that’s Strange……. Island Girl was on my port side and now she’s on my Starboard side mmmmmm maybe she’s dragging…….. wait a minute the cottage that was off my bow is now way off my starboard side as well…… ROSE LEE IS DRAGGING. Ok stay calm, don’t call Joyce you have lots of sea room Scott get the motor going and get that anchor back up. Done! The anchor has been taken back on board after which I moved the boat back upwind and reset it with plenty of scope Whew, that was to close imagine if it had of happened during the night or while I was ashore 30 minutes ago. This is our 1st boat with a motorized windlass and I had procrastinated putting markers on our all chain rode, it was just one of those things that never made the list yet. We normally use a rule of thumb 5:1 scope and have a 55lb bruce, however it is a bit deceiving when the chain is peeling off the windlass it just seems like a lot more chain is going out than actually is. We have since rectified the problem with rode markers and when in doubt let more out. This was a good learning experience and even though we had set the anchor at 1500 rpm’s the lack of scope combined with a high tide and some breeze managed to be enough to drag. After the excitement I ran in and picked up Island Girl and we had a nice jaunt around Princess inlet in our rib “Gypsy”. We followed this by an uneventful sail around the corner to the town of Mahone Bay.
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