Casilda Cove Storm Anchorage Port Davey Tasmania 

What a time - as the video shows - Heroic. Give them a big hug from us.

Jack and Jude , I sold Amnesia in July 2017, Hobart....you remember, we went through the Dennison canal together going north, the Yr before. I met Rob & Cate on a circumnavigation in the 90’s..been friends ever since.They built a home in Copping, I live in a little cabin on my friends farm in SW WA.

The wind flies above the trees and there is little at deck level

that did not answer the question Sir. I too am intrigued @@capnjack44

Basically a novice idea, but I’ve done it in flooded rivers like the Maria off the Hastings at Port Macquarie. I always used 4 points, 2 into 1 rode bow and stern, the idea was to keep me in a position only 1 or 2 meters from the river bank in a spot where the floating debris would mostly drift past with the current and flow just being diverted around a very slight spot ahead of me making the crap just missing me at around 2 metres, and this spot was sheltered from 90% of wind directions. Why I had to use 1 anchor right against the bank behind 1 of the large clumps of mud that are alway breaking off and sitting along the river’s edge, V off to my bow anchor at 60 degrees and then 1 rode to my bow, and the stern the same, but the river’s anchor point was a medium mangrove tree again 60 degrees V to my stern anchor to a long single rode back to the stern with a short harness to both port and starboard cleats. This was the only way to stay put, as the flooded let alone normal tidal flow will do almost superman things to turn you around, and once it can get you slightly off the line it has you as to the force being side on to your hull gradually increasing as it does until either your anchor points give way or your cleats tear from their positions on the deck! Piece of piss really in a decent tinny with a forward and reverse tiller control. Mind you I was doing this with half an arm amputation by myself or with dog in tinny! But most people I’ve witnessed with nice boats and the like are just too much of the land life aptitude and just buy boats because they have the money and not much idea of oceans or water, let alone the boating life! Sorry, but when you witness it with your own eyes often enough it becomes so frustrating seeing the way they go about things!

Rob & Cate, the folks in the dinghy, are very experienced sailors and knew there was little wind in the lee of the trees. An outboard complicates manuvering and can lead to trouble if mooring lines, which should be floating rope, foul the prop. Personally, Jack and Jude prefer not to use an outboard, preferring to keep our rowing muscles strong in case our outboard should quit, foul a line, or shear a pin. Mind, we use a light weight tinny that's magnificent to row. Last time our near new 5 hp was used, we were 600 miles out in the Coral Sea with tradewinds blowing towards open sea.

While that sounds logical, the wind actually goes over the tops of trees, onboard you feel nothing, and laying a big anchor astern is a pain. The vessel having trouble was the last in and therfore got the windiest location. Lastly, since this was taken, they have made strong points on the rocks to make tying stern inwards easier.