I woke up a few times and basically had nightmares all night about horrible things going wrong with my boat. Nothing did. It stayed hooked in, and other than a strong brief moment of broadsiding wind in the middle of the night, all went well. I think I’ll get more comfortable and confident the more I sleep while on anchor. These pictures were taken at 5:30am.
A few things to note about the overnight anchoring trip:
I want to refill both of the natural gas tanks because using them is awesome.
Having the window shades up is great, and the windows are so tinted I can hardly see inside anyways. But it does get really bright at dawn and challenging to stay asleep.
The harbor patrol guys are really chill in redondo.
And, stern anchoring is pretty easy, especially with no other boats around.

6/15/14