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| + | While most visiting Yachtsmen drop the hook in the Naval Anchorage 110.159 this is not advisable for several reasons. While this anchorage is the closest anchorage to downtown Annapolis it also has notoriously bad holding. To make things worse if you do anchor hear and are unlucky enough to have a run in with another vessel or even if another vessel were to run into you, even if you are displaying propery anochoring day/night signals, you are liable. While the Harbor Master patrols this anchorage daily logging all visiting vessels what they do not tell you is that this anchorage is off limits to any vessel without written permission to use it from the Superintendant of the Naval Academy. South Anchorage and Middle Anchorage, just to the south east, suffer from the same poor holding and are a bit further away from the public dock but at least you won't be liable if a derilect speed boat hits you while you are at anchor. | ||
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Revision as of 20:25, 10 November 2009
Annapolis
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While most visiting Yachtsmen drop the hook in the Naval Anchorage 110.159 this is not advisable for several reasons. While this anchorage is the closest anchorage to downtown Annapolis it also has notoriously bad holding. To make things worse if you do anchor hear and are unlucky enough to have a run in with another vessel or even if another vessel were to run into you, even if you are displaying propery anochoring day/night signals, you are liable. While the Harbor Master patrols this anchorage daily logging all visiting vessels what they do not tell you is that this anchorage is off limits to any vessel without written permission to use it from the Superintendant of the Naval Academy. South Anchorage and Middle Anchorage, just to the south east, suffer from the same poor holding and are a bit further away from the public dock but at least you won't be liable if a derilect speed boat hits you while you are at anchor.
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