about going aground going into a harbor or anchorage at night because I'm controlling the situation. If it's bad then I don't do it. Simple, simple. What worries me is being in and anchorage on a moonless night and have the weather turn on me. You go to bed and two hours later you have no moon, it's raining, your anchor drag alarm is going off and you're on a lee shore with rocks all around. It's not very ofter you have surrounded yourself with a sand beach. What to do, what to do? Well, IMHO, you should have thought about that on the way in. What I do is have my GPS track line adjusted to the most points available so that I get as many points in the track line as I can so it's as accurate a line as possible. Then, as soon as I get the anchor down I make a route back out either using the route function or manually putting in enough way points that I can follow my inbound track back out - using the interfaced `Auto Pilot. I know some people here will scream bloody murder about this but here's my reasons. I've been in the situation a couple of times and I've tried to follow the course out manually but with not being able to see the bow of the boat it's pretty hard to watch out for the rocks, the beach and the track line all at the same time. The last time this happened I was in some little anchorage where we were tucked up nice and safe but with reefs and rocks all around. I set the "make a quick route" function prior to raising the anchor and just had to find the first way point. I engaged the auto pilot and motored right out the way I had come in, within 35 feet of my track according to the GPS. Of course I still had my eye on everything around me, the radar, the depth sounder and spot light. I couldn't have held the course within 35 feet by hand steering. The other advantage of putting way points in right after you anchor is that you will always have them for later. I'm still using way points all the time that I have left from previous trips and it makes going into the harbor or anchorage just a repeat trip rather then re-inventing the wheel every couple of years. OK, I'm ready. Sock it to me.