Friday, July 8, 2016 Viner Sound to Mound Island 2 ¾ hours 25.9 miles

We planned on anchoring tonight at Crease Island.  Well, it was a beautiful but difficult passing through all the small Islands (big rocks with trees on them).  When we arrived at our intended destination the wind was 20 kts and the anchorage too small for our comfort so we had to find a new anchorage.  There are a lot of anchorages here in the SW area of the Broughtons.  However, most are rather exposed so we found a large anchorage on the south side of Mound Island.  The area is large and we felt comfortable in 20-25 kt. winds and 1 foot chop in the anchorage.  We followed a sailboat in and anchored well away from him.  After our anchor was set we saw seven more boats heading in.  I guess we were all running from the weather.  The problem was that in this huge anchorage they all placed themselves closely around us.  We were watching our position very closely. By afternoon we were sure our anchor was slipping and we were VERY close to our neighbors.  We quickly pulled up the anchor and moved out to the middle of the anchorage.  Although the wind stayed up, we didn’t slip a bit.