Drag fest at Big Majors

So many mistakes. Rafting. Single Anchor. No one on watch. Leaving tenders in the water. Single anchor for two boats. A lot of damage, all easily avoidable.

But, but they are using an Anchor Ball..

Too funny

The laws of physics can not be willed away.

No ball required if your Not Under Command and drifting.

Many of these boats now take tenders they couldn't get aboard if their lives depended on it. 30', 40' and even bigger! Towed behind when underway and driven by a crew member while the vessel is docking or anchoring. There's even one couple running around where the 150' motor yacht is the residence to the owner of the 87' J boat it accompanies everywhere. I guess the owner sails his very fast, classic sailboat during the day and retires to his motor yacht for dinner prepared by a French chef and a bedroom larger than the all the living quarters on the J boat.
Everything in this business is getting bigger and bigger. When I operated "mega-yachts" 160 to 225 feet was a big boat, but to that's just a tender to the "mega-yachts" of today. Sometimes it takes binoculars to tell if that motor vessel out there on the horizon is a cruise ship or a "mega-yacht", and that's no exaggeration.

Just people wholly unprepared. The largest yacht has 2 anchors and only 1 in use. That is a TON of weight and windage sitting on 1 anchor designed to hold just the large yacht. I always prepare well. You see it at marina's also....the people that put 2 weeny unfit fenders out yet have 3 big ones sitting on the bow un-used.....same goes for docklines.

There should have been at a pro Captain on the big boat, he must have been snoozing.