one of the two that dragged by us in Cuttyhunk during a little wind. Well forecast, the southerly 10 knots would shift North overnight and increase to 20.

Very nice guy from a state to the south of Mass(he'd come some distance, disturbing...), dropped his anchor in front of us in the Southerly(twice actually). When he lowered his rode, I saw sufficient length, and a new gen. anchor(one of the new plow type), he didn't back down on his anchor. He dragged a bit toward us on the South wind, but the shift swung him to our port. He slowly, over several hours during the night and the next morning, slid by our port side until at one point, he was just aft our stern.

My daughther started getting ripped and making comments to him, that he was dragging. Finally he raised his anchor the next day, which by then -had dragged to just behind our stern! A very nice guy, he looked at me and said, "I,... I,... don't think I'm draggin", with a smile.

I found it humorous and laughed with him. What could I do? His lack of experience showed he didn't know how to anchor(How is far more important than the type of anchor), but more telling was that he really had no clue as to how check his location(even though he must have had a gps screen, somewhere).

He really didn't learn a thing during that drag, that;s too bad.

All during that 24 to 36 hours of shifting and building winds, I kept easy track on the CP. Here's a photo I took. You can see the shifting wind direction,you can see where I dropped the hook the day before(I set a pointer), you can even see where I let out more rode before the shift and build.

If that poor guy had any idea of that he could do this, he would have learned quickly, he was dragging anchor. Anybody guess my scope during that North wind?