Article: It Happens: At some point, everyone runs aground. Here's how to limit the damage.(Seamanship)

Byline: Capt. Michael Howorth

A single buoy marks the edge of a treacherous reef guarding Marigot Bay on the leeward side of St. Lucia. From the seaward side of the anchorage all you can see is an idyllic hideaway with palm trees, a sandy beach and an inviting thatch-roofed bar at the water's edge--the type of anchorage every cruising yachtsman would love to visit. The pity is the getting in: Get it right and you join an elite club; get it wrong and the reef rips out the bottom of the boat. Unfortunately, the shape of the buoy does not help to choose which side to pass on, nor does its color. The only sensible thing to do is enter from the west at around two ...

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