I can attest to a danforth "flying"!
A couple of years ago i was out scalloping in my flats boat when an afternoon thunderstorm carrying alot of wind blew in. I first tried to out run the storm but it caught me. Visibility dropped to a point where i did not feel safe to continue running along (and i was scared of other boats running towards me, that i wouldnt hear because of my own engine). DEPLOY THE ANCHOR!! wait, why is the boat still drifting so fast?? look out and see the anchor "skiing" downwind of the boat. tried muliple methods, including throwing the anchor as hard as i could downwind so that it would have time to sink before being yanked, all with no luck. This was in 7' of water... imagine in 20' how hard it would be to set!?!?
ended up motoring very slowly into the wind until the storm passed (in florida they blow out as fast as the blow in)
A couple of years ago i was out scalloping in my flats boat when an afternoon thunderstorm carrying alot of wind blew in. I first tried to out run the storm but it caught me. Visibility dropped to a point where i did not feel safe to continue running along (and i was scared of other boats running towards me, that i wouldnt hear because of my own engine). DEPLOY THE ANCHOR!! wait, why is the boat still drifting so fast?? look out and see the anchor "skiing" downwind of the boat. tried muliple methods, including throwing the anchor as hard as i could downwind so that it would have time to sink before being yanked, all with no luck. This was in 7' of water... imagine in 20' how hard it would be to set!?!?
ended up motoring very slowly into the wind until the storm passed (in florida they blow out as fast as the blow in)