This is a three-part series that describes how things went wrong after we sent our anchor chain to be galvanized, and things went downhill from there. It took months for us to set things right, making it one of our more expensive boatyard lessons.

Blog posts in the Anchor Chain Series

The blog posts are about our anchor chain, and our Mantus 105-pound Anchor, and Swivel. These blog posts have the highs, lows and an experimentation with poetry, which is completely my own — not AI generated.

The series begin with two blog-style posts:

Part 1: Re-galvanizing our anchor chain. What could possibly go wrong? Adventures at Pangkor Marina Malaysia: which reads like a comedy of errors when we realize we’ve received the wrong chain.

Part 2: Losing our Ground Tackle: A Continuation of our Malaysian Anchor Chain Debacle: our misfortune with our chain is compounded when we lose our anchor near Phuket, Thailand.

And, ends with a poetic flourish:

Part 3: Diving for a Lost Anchor: A Salty Ballad from Phuket: which describes how technically-trained dive masters dove 60 feet in an attempt to locate our anchor.

Why Part 3 End with a Ballad?

The benefit of a ballad/poem is that it allows me to pack more meaning into fewer words. The poem is a little bawdy but Phuket is pronounced (Poo-ket), thank you very much. So, if you have been mispronouncing the name, don’t get ahead of yourself.

I wrote the poem following a rhyming pattern that is quite common to ballads. It was used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Recommended Listening

If you are on a boat, and have the opportunity, I recommend listening to Richard Burton’s narration of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” When you are actually on the sea the sensory experience is wonderful.