I'm with everyone here.
Drop the hook away from a channel or shipping lane, and rest if its necessary.
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Originally Posted by KeelHaulin
Yes; technically you are still underway when hove-to. Sails are up and the boat is not tied to the bottom so you are under sail and underway.
The best thing to do if you have adequate room is to heave-to on starboard tack (windward side is the starboard side). Since you are on starboard you are privileged over any other sailboat that is on port tack or windward of you; so your only concern for sailboat traffic would be a leeward boat approaching on starboard.
Of course you are still burdened for vessels with restricted maneuverability, commercial fishing vessels, and ship traffic who generally don't change course for small boats.
You still are responsible for keeping an adequate watch; and the only way to do this while I can think of while singlehanded is to set a Radar with proximity sensing capability/alarm (MARPA) to do a sweep every 5 minutes or so to check the area for approaching boats or ships. |
This by virtue of the Starboard tack right of way rule is for the most part true when encountering a SV on a port tack, but your vessel still may have the potential of overrunning another on the same tack.
Especially my 5.65kt SV.
You would be required to avoid me and if you were asleep, would you hear my frantic horn sounding ?
Also, if I'm coming up on you under starboard tack downwind of you (leeward), you're still required to yield, so my frantic horn blowing just before I luff or gybe in defense may or may not wake you?
Its an interesting dilema, though. The test of seamanship may not be in the proper heave to proceedure, but in placing oneself in a compromising position of needing sleep while singlehanding. Does the OP have provisions for
anchor alarms to allow for sleeping while at
anchor providing he is able to get to a place suitable for anchoring?