By novacadian on Skatehive
A little after 4AM a loud alarm sounded. Having been in a deep dream, the source and reason for the alarm was unknown to me upon awakening. After about 30 seconds, finding it was emanating from my phone, my mental lights came on. It was an anchor alarm app which had been installed soon before sleeping. That realization had me out of the bunk and on my way to the cockpit in record time. For the alarm going off should mean that our anchor was dragging. The app had been configured to sound an alarm if the boat were to move more than 20m from where the anchor was set to be. Pierre stopped me on my racing outside to say that his alarm's map looked fine. It appears that the 20m setting which was chosen on mine was thinking the anchor was in the position of where the boat had been during its installation. When the boat moved to the opposite position of the circle of the anchor's reach, which it had, then the alarm had sounded. In other words a false alarm! Grounds for the Admiral having me