Comments on: Ashetens fate

By: Rabenschwinge

Rabenschwinge — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:08:10 +0000

A lot of valuable information, thank you!
The expedition has various boats of different sizes and kinds. The main problem will be, how to anchor it – I have no idea, how deep the lake really is, so I guess I have to find out that first. I´ll take a small sounder with me next time I link to Ahnoto.
For the height of the link in point: If I manage to securely anchor a boat, I could write a linking book to the place the boat is positioned, so I would link in right there.
My concern is, that with a big storm, the boat could break free and be lost, so some kind of more stable platform is a good advice, thanks
If the lake isn´t too deep, I could anchor the platform with, say, three or four anchors – I think, that should be sufficient even when a bigger storm approaches.
So, thanks again, that helped a lot!

By: Pavitra

Pavitra — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:14:09 +0000

The first thing I would suggest regarding Ahnoto would be to anchor some sort of raft or boat at the link-in point. You might be able to carry a Zodiac through the link to bootstrap, but anything larger would probably have to be piece by piece, and the depth of the lake may pose a problem for creating a stable platform.

The height of the link-in point is problematic, too; if you drop ten feet onto an inflatable raft, you’ll likely overturn or even break it, and raising a platform ten feet above waterline seems like a considerable engineering challenge. You might end up keeping open water under link-in and having a ladder to climb up into the boat nearby.

Once you have a base of operations, you can start making proper studies: sounding the depth of the lake, chemical analysis of the water, marine biology, and so forth.