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We have renamed this southern bay Idiots bay.

When we arrived Nivi and Guido found a place and anchored without our assistance. It was near high tide and we were in just under 10m of water. They put out almost 30m of chain 3 to 1 ratio, because winds of 18knots gusting 24 were predicted for this evening. The bay gives protection from the swell but not the wind.

So what happens? A small gin palace (a launch that has 3 levels where they sit on the back deck and drink gin) came and anchored a boat length off our bow. Sue and Andrew stood on the bow explaining very loudly to Guido and Nivi how the boats would swing around at the change of tide and collide and that his anchor may have hooked our anchor. The gin palace must have heard us calling him an idiot and he hauled anchor and moved away a respectable distance.

Two minutes later a medium size gin palace comes in and tries to anchor in the same place. He had a little more sense and realised he was too close and moved about 30m further ahead of us.

A half hour later a large gin palace pulls in along side of us about 25m away and drops anchor. We have 30m of chain plus 17m of boat swinging around. He has 20m of boat at least 20m to 30m of chain and we are 25m apart. So Andrew jumped in the dinghy and went across to ask if their insurance was up to date and to explain where our anchor was. He has moved to the other side of the bay where there was plenty of space.

Another half hour goes by when Andrew looked out the porthole to see a dinghy floating out to sea. No it wasn’t ours. Nivi, Guido and Andrew jumped into our dinghy and headed off to rescue the drifting dinghy. Half way there and it was apparent whose dinghy it was. A motorsailer had hauled anchor and was heading towards the dinghy. Our trio caught the dinghy and towed it to the motorsailer and the three men onboard.

What’s next?