We had to make our mooring at JPCuttings more safe. Mooring close to the shore outside a harbour is dangerous. Even the heaviest anchors drag in the heaviest rainstorm gusts. Moreover, to fix the location of your boat you need three anchors, the heavy front ones on long (100 m) lines to make the dhow pull them horizontally, as was our original set up at Kingfisher Safari Lodge near Jinja:
Our Kingfisher (Jinja) anchoring before we sank concrete blocs (for real boat size divide by 20)
but during fresh side winds, the fixing of the rear anchor line has to be moved to the wind board front to allow the dhow to turn in the wind, thus reducing air resistance. Side winds stronger than fresh require temporary release of the rear anchor [we experienced what it means if you don't]. Finally gusts over 10 Bf makes your front anchors drag (in fact, we were blown on the beach rocks three time before we realized this is about a once a year event. In sum, three way anchoring requires permanent monitoring. So, in Jinja, we sank concrete blocs with chains, so we could be to be on one short line only (20 m), en simply turn round with the wind direction [see greetings page "storms"]. At JP Cuttings Garuga, Entebbe, I bought an oil barrel and carried the mortar by canoe to the drum on board on a place from where it could be dropped, bucket by bucket.
Ronald, contractor for the house of Maarten and Willemien, had a steel bar triangle forged, I submerged my chain and U-shackle connection in the concrete to freeze there
Wind was generous: the dhow, after lifting anchor, was blown without sail before the mooring position by a NorthWest, then blown to shore in exact position by afternoon South. I lifted anchors, including the 3 men's front anchor, on his own. My battered back forced me for several mornings to put on my trousers in sitting position.
On the upper edge: JP Cuttings warehouses and buildings. Shore side shallows, trees, sands, bushes and high herbs ideal for crocs, but none home at present. But monitor lizards abound. The concrete-filled drum dropped at 00.074617 32.534445 decimal degrees (paste in Google Earth and zoom out to see Entebbe, Kampala en the Nile)
Safely moored at the mortar-filled oil barrel, the dhow is turning with the wind and can be left alone, even in rainstorms