We made up a quick drop line to measure the depth. Not hard as it is less than 12' deep. Then we went to the boats that are on the back side of the lagoon and measured the depth at the bow of each one and where we thought we might swing to.
January 2021 - Anchored in the Bahia
de Navidad Lagoon
We used an old cone zinc tied on a line marked with some blue tape at every foot from 6' to 12'. We went out at around 10:40 am and the tide was high at 10:51 am at 1.64 feet. It would get low at 2:06 pm down to 0.33 feet.
"s/v Mambo", Jean Pierre on board
We started here at "Mambo" as it was close to us. It was 8.5' deep where the bow was. We went out about 100' where we thought it might swing and it was 10' there.
Also, we had anchored over there a few weeks ago and at negative tide we were aground and started listing. The tide was still on the way out so we worked our way off the bottom and re-anchored in more water. We also re-calibrated out depth sounder.
We would take a sounding, waypoint mark at the spot of the boats' bow on our Garmin eTrex 10 after we took the sounding there.
s/v Nayeli, a Catalina 42 Mk II with Steve and Stacy,
Then we would move into possibly shallower water by about 100 or more feet and repeat the process. Figuring if we swung with 100' of rode that it could end up in the shallower area. It was 9.5' deep where the bow was. We went out 100' and it was 9.0' there.
"The Mambo", a Westsail 42 aft cockpit with Tony and Peg,
It was 10' deep at the bow and 8.75' out where we might swing.
It all went well. The breeze did pick up a bit so we had a hard time staying in one spot in the dinghy so we called it quits. We got what we wanted though.
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