Spartygirl
Verified Insider - Michael Vanzandt case
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Right-- I thought I read the anchor was down, but went I went to verify today, all the articles that I saw said it was NOT anchored.Yes that is another possibility.
There seems to be no definite answer yet on whether the boat had its anchor down.
My main boating experience is with much smaller john boats. One thing that may be adding to the confusion about the anchor is something that happened to me often on a windy lake.
When I would put out the anchor and if I did not leave enough slack rope out then what sometimes happened is the wind blew the boat to the deeper side and the anchor would pull up off the bottom and be free floating. I was trying to fish and only noticed it as I started to see the boat was moving away from where I was trying to fish. I had to pull up the anchor, and restart the boat and go back and then the next time I made sure to put out plenty of slack line and that usually prevented it from happening again.
Another thing that could have happened.
If the anchor weight is too small/light weight and the wind is strong enough, the boat can get dragged along by the wind even with the anchor on bottom.
So something like this could have happened and this could explain the confusion over whether the anchor was down or not.
so I sort of went with the latter.
It would be a lot easier for the searchers/divers if the the boat had been anchored as they would have approx. vicinity (a better one) than they do now if it was NOT anchored as it more than likely drifted. UGH