You need two things to sleep soundly on your cruising boat:
A calm anchorage
A good anchor
If the boat is still and everything is calm, you will sleep like a baby without the need to keep an ear awake for odd sounds that mean trouble, having a good anchor (like our Mantus anchor) means that you won’t need to worry about dragging in the night, so your boat will stay right where you intended it to.
While a calm anchorage and a good anchor are excellent and obvious tips to a good nights sleep, the good anchorage part doesn’t always happen.
Sometimes there are bad conditions, high traffic, or just a plethora of other issues that can make wonderful sleep seem elusive. This is where having an anchor drag alarm comes in.
We have the Vesper XB 8000 which has a built in anchor drag alarm. It shows you where you have been swinging and let’s you set the radius of the circle. If the boat slips out of the ring, a very loud alarm goes off!
This means you can sleep and if anything happens, it will wake you up to deal with it, until then, you can have a great nights sleep without the aforementioned calm anchorage (but you still need a good anchor).
