We were anchored overnight October 1 in the lee of Redfish Island, in Galveston Bay. We had anchored on Saturday afternoon in 7 feet of water, approximately 100 yards from the island. Ground tackle included a 33 lb plow style anchor and 70 feet of rope, including 30 feet of chain and 40 feet of line. Wind was northeast, 18-22 based on wind meter.
Incident.
At/around 0635, heard a horn, awakened, and observed we were bearing down on the sailing vessel Nerid.
Sweet T had dragged and was positioned over the anchor rode of Nerid, with their rope between the keel and rudder of Sweet T. Our efforts to free the vessels were unsuccessful. We attempted to use the auxiliary engine to separate the boats, but the engine did on Sweet T (anchor rope of Nerid fouled on Sweet T saildrive). We kept the boats separated as well as possible. The captain of Nerid led additional rope out while the captain/owner of Sweet T pulled in rope, seekign to unfoul the boats.
Ultimately, we agreed to sever the anchor line from the vessel Nerid, and the captain/owner of Nerid severed his anchor line. The captain did not feel it was safe to render assistance. We (Sweet T) advised intent to call TowBoatUS. Nerid left the scene. Sweet T was fouled on the anchor rode of Nerid, with its port stern to the wind/chop.
Response.
We (sailing vessel Sweet T) called TowBoatUS at 0717 hours. At 0843, Captain with TowboatUS arrived. We requested he pull our stern to windward to slacken the tension on Nerid's anchor rode. Within 5 minutes, the SweetT was pulled to windward and we cut the rode from Nerid. Our anchor/rope remained set, and Towboat helped pull our bow into the wind so that we could retrieve the anchor /road using the windlass.
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Damage/Loss:
Sweet T: the bow/anchor pulpit on Nerid pushed and broke one stanchion, and pushed over another stanchion ( boarding gate) on the portside (aft of amidships). There was very minor scraching of varnish along the toe-rail. Stanchions are not scratched and the vinyl lifeline did not break.
Nerid: ground tackle was lost (left behind). Reportedly, there are scratches in bow area on Nerid.

Operator V1 completed this report.

Kemah                         