The journal details of this anchoring practice session were lost. What follows here is a brief summary of the details that I can recall 8 years later.

After being trained with all ASA sailing training except for long passagemaking, I felt imexperienced in one particular skill that is crucial for sailing in he caribbean and elsewhere: anchoring. I had exactly zero experience in dropping anchor after all of those hours of ASA trainig.

I asked the sailing school about this, and they offered to give me a 3-hour private session on anchoring,

I decided to bring my father with me, as he was in town for a visit.

The session was very quick– all that we did was motor out to the first open area accessible from the channel, and then started to do several drop anchor drills. it was a short practice session, but I suppose it is about as good as I could have hoped for– in Galveston Bay, there are not very many places to safely anchor, so it is not a very commonly used skill when sailing in that area.

That’s it– hopefully I can track down the original journal where I noted some key learnings about the anchoring process. But if not well, life goes on.