Zuluwaterways.com is another great source as a peer to peer source, particularly in Australia and Asia, although they are growing in the U.S. east coast too. Other locations they are in include the Caribbean, South America, Mediterranean, parts of Africa, and others. Although I am in the New York City area, I use both Active Captain and Zuluwaterways.
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers, Dave. We'll look that up 👍
@davefoster7770
3 жыл бұрын
You show the map and I'm still deeply jealous of your visit to the Dahlaks. A spot of gun point eviction is par for the course throughout a vast swath of the entire continent. When it comes to the soldiers dictating the price of eggs in the market at gun point in various countries. You know the egg seller is way more screwed than you and there is nothing you can do. Dahlaks look gorgeous though. Great work on going the "wrong way".
@stevenplancich6449
3 жыл бұрын
Oh Liz...Lighten up on Jaime’s sore throat...He means Well 😜
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
No sympathy!
@rashie
3 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
😉😁
@svbarryduckworth628
3 жыл бұрын
We like Active Captain here in the US on the East Coast because it has the most exhaustive and comprehensive list of anchorages among the other options. We use many different sources but find that often AC has almost every decent location already listed except for a few "secret" spots off the beaten path. Unfortunately, Garmin sort of ruined the community aspect of AC so the community reviews of each anchorages become quite thin over the past couple of years as other cruisers have not participated in the reviews very much lately. The recent reviews are the best to read as conditions can change quite rapidly -especially the shoaling at entrances and also reports of things like spikes in law-enforcement harassment when a specific spot happens to be in the back yard of someone of influence. There is also a new player in the field of peer to peer anchor spots sharing called Zulu Waterways. It looks like it has a lot of potential eventually, but it hasn't really gotten off the ground much as of yet with participation and the geolocation of all the many spots on their database. Another issue we have in our cruising grounds is buried power cables. Navionics does a very good job of making them on the electronic charts we have but it seems a lot of other cruisers don't think about them down there or see them on whatever charts they are using. We have often seen other boats anchored directly over where power cables are charted. That can ruin your whole day if one is snagged. The boat captain/owner is responsible for damages by law and the cost to repair or even lay new cable can be extremely high. We often anchor in 3-4 meters and sometimes in as low as 2 as we are a shallow draft monohull. Sometimes we hear newcomers run aground near us because they figure if we are anchored there they can too...but we are often in the part of an anchorage that only the catamarans dare drop their hooks. If someone wants to play copycat they better know their boat ID by brand so as not to assume a random other boat has a similar draft as them. :D
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
It's funny, I don't really hear of people talking about AC here in Asia bar the odd skipper of the bigger motor boats. I tried to get it up and running on my phone but without much success. Interesting you mention the submerged cables. It's something we have to be aware of here as there are many along this coastline and I've often wondered how many cruisers ignore them. I'm also interested to know how far under the sea bed they are. Do they lay on the bed or are they buried far beneath? Either way I avoid them. Last thing I want is for our anchor to try and pull up a cable. We've hooked enough crap in our time!
@svbarryduckworth628
3 жыл бұрын
Here on the North American charts for Navionics all of the Active Captain information can be downloaded onto the plotter card or the phone/tablet and be used offline. It is updated with along with the charts at the user's convenience if that option has been enabled. Having it at hand while underway or at anchor is extremely handy for planning. Clickable icons exist right there on the screen on the chart at or near the location for which they refer. It is funny how many people will prefer to drop their hook EXACTLY where it shows on the chart, even though there are usually better spots a few hundred meters away or so, depending on wind direction and other factors. I don't think the locations for these markers were ever meant to be used as an exact to-the-inch pinpoint location, but instead mark a general area where one can find spots to fit the circumstances and your particular draft.
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, believe me, the amount of times we've seen cruisers drop their hook exactly on the recommended anchorage in an otherwise open bay defies belief. We even had, and I think we discussed this to camera, one guy tell us we'd anchored in his spot. No, sorry, this happened twice, and the second time the guy actually dropped his hook right in front of us, forcing us to weigh anchor and move. Again, his response was "I always anchor in this spot".
@svbarryduckworth628
3 жыл бұрын
We have seen similar. Once we were heading towards a spot right off the ICW at peak migration time which was fairly near the AC icon on the chart. When we turned upwind to stall our motion over it a motor.cruiser came screaming up following from our previous course into this anchorage off of the main channel. They were still moving directly downwind and downcurrent cutting us off to.get there first. They proceeded to dop.their hook at almost.3 knots right in front of us so they could snag the prime spot first. Interesting technique.as their hook dug in and flipped them around on their rode like one of those toy ping-pong paddles with the ball connected to it by a bungie cord. We bugged out of their way before they got a chance to hit us. We moved to another perfectly good spot 150m down.
@magstv2333
3 жыл бұрын
So windy we are dragged often hehe
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
😆🤪😆
@NSIXGT
3 жыл бұрын
Good information, Liz and Jamie. All best, Daniel Wardin.
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Daniel, hope you are doing well 😃👍
@jonathanwetherell3609
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Nice lesson/review.
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Pleasure 👌
@searscr1
3 жыл бұрын
You know, I am really liking this new format. Keep it up!
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
So glad it's working for you, we like it too. 👍 Liz
@SirCharles12357
3 жыл бұрын
Good info! I even jotted down a few of those references! Thanks
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Good to know, glad it was useful. Liz 🙏
@paulmerron3947
3 жыл бұрын
Yet again a winner of a vid, thanks
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers! Liz 🙏
@dutchglobetrotter4513
3 жыл бұрын
Lots of good info in a short video. I love it.
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you found out useful. Cheers, Liz 🙏
@dreadnoughtb3364
3 жыл бұрын
Anchorage become complex after the internet was made available for boats..Prior to that ya just dropped the damn thing.
@followtheboat
3 жыл бұрын
Not really true. You've always had to check currents, weather, wind, seabed, typography etc before dropping the hook. We now have additional tools to help, that's all. Liz
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