Naturism as self-defence.
Dillard StrongIn FKK Turns Two - Happy Birthday to Young Naturists and Naturists America! was sailing an extremely beaten up schooner called "Gloria" around the Caribbean isles that make up the Grenadines. This schooner I'd bought with almost the last of my cash for f1500. We had many experiences, not least was the oil pressure on the engine going AWOL. There my lady friend Helen re-joined us and one of the crew left.![]()
Our next stop was the isle of Bequia, the pilot publication warned that the holding for the anchor in the main bay was not too good and to be cautious of yachts dragging their anchors. Yet we didn't hit anything and came to rest in a fairly sheltered place. Myself and buddy Edmund donned snorkels and masks and dived to check said anchor, it was not dug in very well at all, so I piled some stone on it. Subsequently after surfacing we put another anchor out to make sure. The difficulty was that the sea bed was not too deep sand over coral, along with the anchor was having trouble biting.
A couple of nights later during another squall I 'd my slumber disturbed by the unmistakable sound of double diesels going hard astern, on emerging from my berth and running topsides I saw a big catamaran quite close to our bow taking evasive action. He'd clearly dragged his anchor and just managed to miss us and recover his equipment before going away to try again somewhere else.
This scenario was rein acted many times over our stay in the assorted Isles. We didn't pull, with no engine we couldn't manage to, so we put down lots of chain and an added anchor at every stop. You dear fellow naturists will like the answer I found to this problem.
The group of yacht uses we had most trouble with were the ones who charter their yachts, many of these individuals have not had plenty of experience in Anchoring, and there is quite plenty of technology to what on the surface appears a easy manoeuvre. These folks, tend not to have spent big period of time in close proximity to others as in a little yacht surroundings. These individuals are the sort which have not come face to face with bare human bodies except in some specific situations. In fact I discovered that if I appeared naked in the cockpit while I read a novel and waved to the just arriving charter yachts of an evening, they would go right over to the different side of the bay, "hey presto" issue sorted!)