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It has been a while since I've seen a thread like this - the rules are simple: attempt to identify the location of the last posted picture in the thread. Once the picture poster confirms the first correct responder that person then gets to add a (sailing-related) picture to the thread and the game continues.
Since I'm no good at this type of guesswork my only chance of getting a picture into the thread is by starting it off with the following picture:
It looks awfully like the anchorage on the island of Anegada taken from close inshore but there are too many boats there and I've never seen a painter/mooring ball with that long a line anywhere in the BVI.
Stocking Island, Georgetown, Bahamas and I would throttle the ***** with the extra long bridle. Unless its your boat Fallard, then it's totally acceptable
Zanshin's got it. The photo was taken from the western end of the anchorage by Setting Point, Anegada. The relatively empty space in front of the boat is where the anchorage necks down. We were in the relatively small "annex" to the mooring field that is opposite Neptune's Treasure restaurant.
The bridle is from the charter boat, but the long line from the buoy was typical of the half dozen or so rental moorings at that end of the anchorage. Perhaps the longer scope is provided to deal with wave action that would develop when the wind shifts to a more southerly direction. You're right about the line from the ball being atypically long for the BVI.
This is the one anchorage in the BVI that I would not recommend approaching using "line of sight" navigation. You need to find the outer buoy and line up your approach through the reef. Anegada is a low-lying island, with the high point being trees, so you don't have any good landmarks as you approach from the open sea. For quite awhile Anegada was off-limits for most bareboat charters. In more recent times, the "channel" markers are more reliably and there are many more moorings available for your peace of mind.
Thanks fallard! I've been into Anegada many times, but the new boat is 8.7 feet of draft so I am going to be anchoring outside and dinghying in; I haven't made it into the anchoring field with other boats but turn "right" after the entrance and anchor in excellent holding with 6-7 feet. The Navtech charts for Anegada are off by over 100 feet. Use the GPS and you'll drive straight over the "twin sisters" (2 big coral heads)! Nowadays the convoys heading to Anegada from Virgin Gorda in the late morning make it easier to get inside - just follow a boat you hope has a deeper draft than you do.
OK - Here goes with a picture that I hope won't be cracked too quickly:
The first picture is what I found underneath my boat (the left one in the picture) while diving on my anchor and the second is a closer picture of what can been seen in the top left of the original picture.
Zanshin: I always like to be self-reliant and use the GPS to find the outer "chanel" marker for Setting Point on Anegada. After that you can use the inner markers for a guide, but you really want to read the water visually. You obviously know why!
My recollection is that you can stay in at least 7' if you are careful. We've been in boats that draw 5-6' and it isn't comfortable when you don't trust the accuracy of the bareboat depth sensor. We save our incoming track and refer to it on the way out.
I've considered that it might be easier to anchor off Pomato Point and dinghy it. That looks like what you are considering.
Mark - you give me too much credit for photoshopping; the pictures aren't retouched. You've got the right sea, though. This island, and the neighbours, were hotly contested by several European nations for many years and numerous fortifications were built close by.
Close by (a couple of miles) is a well-known site, either a UNESCO world cultural site or on the Tentative list... hmm... that might give it away for people who use Google.
Fallard has it - I'd forgotten about the Panoramio pictures!
The sunken cannon is indeed under the blue-hulled old "Zanshin", the neighbouring ketch is a befriended boat and soon afterwards the cat belonging to Chris Doyle was there. The dredging work is a major project to turn the salt marsh into a mega-resort - but the work has been stretching on for a long time with no end in sight.
White House Bay is a protected anchorage, unlike the main one off Basseterre just a couple of miles to the north. I was there a week waiting for some heavy weather to pass, since my companion Ketch wanted to wait.
The Panoramio photo shows the same boats, but taken from a slightly different vantage point, as the photo in his post. Maybe the dark-hull one is Zanshin's.
I'm not sure why MattSplatt is mystified. When you think you've located a likely spot on GE, you can check photos posted in the vicinity for buildings or landmarks. These photos have been uploaded to Panoramio.
I wasn't mystified. I just thought I was pretty smart googling this site for image URLs and the like. I hadn't thought of Panoramio. I have most extra stuff turned off in Google Maps/Earth.
With the Panoramio approach, you have to be close to the location posted. That's a lot more sporting than using Tineye for a reverse image search.
The way I got close on this last photo was by recognizing the salt pond and the volcanic terrain and figuring out it was in the eastern Caribbean, for starters. The clue about conflict in the area helped to eliminate some islands that weren't fought over. The territorial fights involving St. Kitts continued into the late 20th century when Anguilla seceded from St. Kitts-Nevis after rebellions in 1967 & 1969, with Anguilla being established as a separate British colony in 1980.
BTW, I recently learned about Tineye from this blog, but haven't tried it yet. That would take the fun out of this "Contest". Suggest we make that a rule: no Tineye!
I haven't heard of Tineye before. I'll have to check it out. (I won't use it here, of course!)
Sounds like it's similar to that iPhone app (I forget what it's called) that you can play a snippet of music into, or even sing, I think, and it figures out what song it is.
OK, where's this? Perhaps including a lighthouse will make this too easy, but see if you can identify the structure in the background with the flag up high,
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