in a flooding tide against one of those sand "traps"....the current was too quick for his dingy to be much help in trying to set and anchor. Getting into the water would have been fool hardy.

A Boston Whaler was trying to keep him "stabilized" by holding him back from the relatively steep sand edge he was "pinned" on. I guess they finally got him off.

If I were going to do it, I'd want to do it during the relatively brief period of slackish water just before high tide.

I've seen boats back in the Pond. I was told you can't anchor over night; but as Richard says, that might more a admonition than a regulation. From the chart, it looks like there's a lot of water in there -- IF YOU COULD GET IN AND OUT.

(My favorite anchorage used to be in the area above Edgartown, beyond the mooring fields. The area used to be called Katama Bay (sp?) They stopped allowing people to anchor there some years ago. (They claimed it was because of the shellfish areas, but I think it was the Edgartown mansionette owners who didn't like their bucholic view interupted by anchored boats and boaters.) Now, it would be a really uncomfortable because of the opening that was made to the south through the dunes -- the current that passes through that area is supposed to be fierce. I'm sure the shell fish are happy, if they can hold on. ;^)