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    LETTERS

    May 21, 2020 4 minutes

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    Learned the hard way

    Thank you for the excellent article on anchoring (YM, May 2020). Can I add a few points following our experience of anchoring during Storm Hector (Force 10) in Plockton Bay?

    ■ Anchoring with two anchors in a vee adds little in a storm, because the anchors are only loaded in

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