Anchor Flu
15 April 2012 | Sand Dollar Beach, Stocking Island
Caution: this blogsite describes a terrible disease and includes graphic references. Reader beware.
Two days after we anchored at Sand Dollar beach the weather started to blow and blow and blow from the east-southeast through south-southeast. Nearly all of the 3 days anchored there the wind was above 30 knots with gusts above that. The swells coming in from the ocean created a washing machine effect and the crew contracted the dreaded Anchor Flu.
Signs and Symptoms:
1. Queasiness and nausea making it impossible to do fine work or have your head below your waist;
2. Sleep deprivation due to violent boat motion--side to side and bucking up and down, all at the same time;
3. General malaise due to lack of sleep;
4. Full body achiness as if a gremlin had been pummeling the body with a rubber mallet;
5. Mood swings, especially in the "cranky" and "bitchy" direction;
6. Overwhelming urge to scream due to inability to get off the boat;
7. Eye strain from staring at the GPS to see if the boat is dragging or not;
8. Longing for a flat surface (board, floor, bed) to get some much needed sleep.
Treatment:
1. Make the weather change to something a little more benign;
2. Move to a more protected anchorage.
We were cured by moving the boat about a mile north near Monument beach! Yippee. Sleep, cooking meals and being able to get off the boat. Life is good again.
No picture for this entry for obvious reasons: it was too ugly to share.