Rick:
No offense taken....I appreciate the 'constructive response' you always
make on this forum, no matter what the subject matter....I don't mind
telling stories of my sailing experiences where I can say "I survived /
lived through that one"...... and I can think of a lot over the past 50
years. I would like to think that sharing these tails on this forum
might help others to avoid putting their lives and vessels at risk. And
responses like yours can point the way to the right way of doing it.
But that said, here's another quick story from a few years back.....out
for an afternoon sail with my brother (and he's a good sailor) in the
outer harbor, open water, perfect visibility ..... relaxed, having a
beer, talking, looking out and around every few minutes....no boats in
sight.....port tack on a close reach.....still didn't see another
boat....then, holly s--t, a CS 36 passed across our bow on starboard
tack at full speed......maybe a boat length or two in front of
us.....and we thought we were the only boat out there. Lesson here: 2
boats each traveling at +6 knts directly towards each other can make 2
miles disappear within 10 minutes......I now pay better attention to
that little bit of math.
Does you remember the Clint Eastwood movie "UNFORGIVEN ".....there is a
line in the movie when Clint says to Morgan Freeman and the kid " I
ain't like that anymore ". Well, I ain't like that anymore. Now,
even when I am out for a pleasure sail, I am on total alert to the point
I might annoy someone....at least this 'old mind' thinks so.
Regards
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2014/02/21 3:45 PM, Rick Brass wrote:
Rob;
I didn't mean to be insulting or didactic. I was going for ironic, but
see I didn't quite make the trip.
I've done some risky things myself in the past 40 -- make that 50 --
years. I have had a few moments when I said "Crap! I could have died
last night!"
But I've always been really cautious when aweigh in fog. Even if you
had the best chart plotter in the world to help keep track of the
channel markers, the plotter isn't going to show another boat crossing
your course at 5 knots. And I hate trying to steer by the plotter in
the fog, because fog is so disorienting and it's so difficult to steer
a steady course.
Rick
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On 2014/02/21 12:30 AM, Rick Brass wrote:
Rick:
In a later post on this incident, I said we should have been traveling
at a lower speed given the lack of visibility and the lack of
electronics....we knew that then, as well, but we were taking risks.
After passing the buoy to our port about 5 feet away, we then slowed
down to 3 kts....it was a sobering feeling....we got away with this one!
Rob
Rob,
Re: Hitting a buoy at 6.5 knots in the fog
See COLREGS rule 6.
I think of it as the marine equivalent of the "Basic Speed Limit" in
effect for cars in the US -- "to be able to stop in the assured clear
distance ahead"
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*Robert Abbott
*Sent:* Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:06 AM
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*Subject:* Stus-List Navigation Devices
Some years back on a friend's C&C 34R with no chartplotter or radar,
we were motoring home after a race was called for lack of wind, in the
fog, and dam near ran into a navigational bouy . It could have been
really ugly hitting that immovable object at 6.5 knots.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
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