Stern Boat Anchor. Most boats are designed and built to present the bow to seas and wind. Anchoring Bow and Stern.
The more gear you add to your yacht the less space you will have available to squeeze in an anchor roller. This technique would also be good for watersports tow boats with fixed running gear. By dropping an anchor close to the beach and a second anchor in the opposite direction you can locate the boat precisely in the anchorage.
Once the dinghy is in a position from the boat to enable the stern anchor to hold the boat into any swell or in line with nearby boats throw the stern anchor into the water and the chain will follow remember it should be flaked in advance to ensure this happens.
Tension the stern line. Your boat was designed to carry an anchor at the bow and not on the stern. If you anchor a boat from the stern any change in water or wind direction can not be automatically adjusted for by the shape of the boat. We tend to drop about 2 boat lengths off the stern.
