Last night was exciting. About 3 am a squall went through here. We had pouring rain, lightning and thunder and very high winds. We went flying 180 degrees. We thought at first our anchor did not hold and that it did not reset. We looked at the other 3 boats anchor lights and none of us seemed too close thankfully. Lee tracked our boats location on the tablet with Garmin blue chart soft wear. As the hours wore on it became clear we were making an arc pattern but we had switched sides of the arc instantly. The anchor either did hold or reset quickly. The second set of squiggles slowly worked its way back to where the squiggles earlier in the evening had been making almost half a circle around our anchor. We tried using Drag Queen (anchor alarm program put out by Active Captain) but it did not alarm until it thought we were 350ft off from where we started. Not impressed with Drag Queen. Neither of us slept much til day light. This area is tough to set an anchor in because of the rocks, coral, and grass. The wind blew all day which was predicted and we picked this spot expecting protection. In spite of the wind we did not have big bad waves.
We are still able to get BTC signal and use Lee's phone as a hot spot. This may be our last blog for a while.
When using Drag Queen, make sure the Alarm switch on the bottom right of the screen is switched to "on." It's easy to overlook, and if you restart the app it defaults to "off." That's got me before.
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