I have had this experience also.. it almost seemed like the anchor chain was acting like a ladder. I always teleported while I was near the chain up to the anchor switch on the deck.

Same thing happened to me. My house was not far away and when i used a ladder it teleported me to the same place & died. After creating a new character I cannot access containers or hotbar ever since. ***UPDATE - After reading other threads about tamed horses causing the non-access to containers issue, I deleted my tamed horse in editor mode (since my hotbar was empty and could not place anything into it). It worked and everything is...