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Anchoring at Peter Island
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12/11/2018 04:37 PM
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Traveling with a party of eight to BVI January 27-Feb 4 on a Moorings 4800. All of us have been there multiple times, but we have never spent a night on Peter Island. Based on our itinerary, we are planning to spend our last evening, a Sunday, at Peter Island to allow us a short trip to get the boat back to the base and make the late morning ferry back to STT. As we will probably get to Peter rather late in the afternoon, I am assuming that finding a mooring ball may be a major challenge, thus making alternative plans for anchoring if necessary. Anchoring on the north side of the island, it looks like Little, Great harbors and Deadman Bay are possibilities, with White Bay or Key Point on the south side. Just looking for recommendations as to which of these may be our best alternatives for anchoring if we are unable to latch onto a mooring.
Also, I assume that there are no real dining/drinking options at Peter Island at this time?
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Re: Anchoring at Peter Island
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12/12/2018 08:48 AM
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Deadman is very poor holding. Mostly grass over loose sand. Great harbor has balls and with the Wily T evicted by then probaby no problem finding a ball
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Re: Anchoring at Peter Island
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12/12/2018 10:47 AM
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Yes we did check it to make sure we had a good hold. Did an overnight once at Deadmans on a 50 mono. Found a sandy spot amoungst the grass and dove to make sure we got a good set in the sand. Still did not hold! Did hold until morning. Got up early for coffee and we had just started to slip. Can you say anchor alarm. Up anchor and an early start for North Sound that day with breakfast underway.
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Re: Anchoring at Peter Island
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12/12/2018 03:09 PM
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Thanks for the updates. Sounds like Great Harbor is a good option, but related question is whether there is any update on the Willy T-assumption is that mooring field may be a bit less crowded if Willy T has indeed moved on. Any locals with insights as to when/where Willy T may be headed?
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Re: Anchoring at Peter Island
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12/14/2018 08:28 PM
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Did an overnight once at Deadmans on a 50 mono. Found a sandy spot amoungst the grass and dove to make sure we got a good set in the sand. Still did not hold! Did hold until morning. Got up early for coffee and we had just started to slip. Can you say anchor alarm. Up anchor and an early start for North Sound that day with breakfast underway. Do you remember the length of your chain and how long you went backwards with how many rpm to "fix" the anchor?
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Re: Anchoring at Peter Island
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12/15/2018 10:06 AM
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There is a long story behind this but I spent an entire day in the east end of Deadman testing anchors of a Beneteau 505. The boat had an 80 b CQR, we brought down a 50 lb aluminum Spade and borrowed a Bruce and a plow pattern. Wind was a steady 10 to12 knots across the low section of Caby Point. We would drop an anchor on a 6:1 scope, mark the point with a weighted pool noodle, backed down at 2500 RPM, mark where it set with nother noodle. After 30 minutes we measured to see if it dragged. The CQR and the plow both moved an average of 6 feet. The Bruce about half that and the Spade none measured.
We repeated the testing at Mancheneel Bay up near Cistern Point which is notorious for poor holding and got similar results. From that I would rate Deadman at least as poor holding as Cooper Island.
Last edited by GlennA; 12/15/2018 10:07 AM.
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