and I shouldn't have
Went out Saturday afternoon. Anchored in the Galveston Bay that night. Was planning on heading out into the Gulf and try some fishing while I was out there the next day. About 4 am Sunday morning a thunderstorm came through with gusts up to 50 kts from the west. Where I was anchored, I had protection from the south where the wind normally comes from and was that night. The current must have been doing something because in the middle of the night I realized that I was no longer anchored from the bow, but from the keel (rode wrapped around keel). I tried to motor around it but didn't seem to help any. Gave up and went to bed because it's happened before and worked itself out, but when that storm came and woke me up, I though for sure the boat was going to capsize. 50 kts blowing against the beam and rode pulling the keel the other way. I closed all the hatches and companion way to make the boat as leak proof as possible and thought that when the boat would tip, the rode would come free. Later as I sat in the cabin with the boat heeled about 60%, I realized I had no idea how badly the rode was wrapped around the keel and if it would come off. I was thinking that staying in the boat may have been a bad idea if the boat tipped over, the mast hit bottom and rode still wrapped around keel. Well, end result was the storm passed in 1.5 hours and all was ok except I lost a bit of bottom paint and the bimini needs some work now. Later that morning it took me two hours to get my anchor out. It was dug real deap. Between the rocking of the boat, the windless, the motoring, I finally got it up but it must have been 3 feet deep in mud. I guess the rode and anchor passed the test. Needless to say, I went back to the slip after that and slept at the dock last night
