Always good advice. If you are not familiar with a particular landfall,
never be afraid to hold off or at least do a few "round turns" until you
can feel comfortable with your position and route of approach .... even
with those you are normally familiar with.
Even with GPS, radar, your visual/ mental sense of what is around you
and where you are, is extremely important to your "comfort factor" when
navigating in any restricted or close quarters.

otn

Rosalie B. wrote:
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We do go into some inlets after dark and don't go into others. Miami
is pretty well lit and well marked. Lucaya is not and has some
uncharted and unlit buoys. So even though we have a previous track on
the computer, I would not go in at night.


grandma Rosalie