‘We were anchored to a lobster pot’
May 21, 2020
3 minutes
James Steven’s article in the February issue of YM ‘A question of Seamanship’ about snagging a rope on the prop, reminded me of our experience while sailing our Hanse 345 Fifty Fifty along the French channel coast in July 2018.
My sailing partner and co-owner Mick and I had left Boulogne some seven hours earlier, motor-sailing with gentle breezes en-route to Dieppe, a distance of about 60 miles. However, soon after midday, the winds dropped to dead calm. Sails were lowered and
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