On 4/9/10 1:31 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:56:43 -0400,
wrote:

So, how do you avoid lobster traps while boating in the fog?

Slowly and with great care. Even in Maine pea soup you can usually
see 50 to 100 ft. The radar is for avoiding other boats and locating
nav aids.

Being able to see lobster pots in thick fog is actually a good thing
because the lobstermen rarely set in less than 6 or 7 ft of water.


That's really interesting, Wayne, because some years ago I was out guest
"lobstering" with a friend of a friend off of Swans Island, Maine, and
the fog was as thick as pea soup on the way back. We couldn't see far
enough ahead to locate trap floats 50 feet away, or even 25 feet away.
We got back okay, but it felt as if we were in that scene in the movie
MacArthur (with Gregory Peck) on the way to Australia on the PT Boat,
running through mine fields.

There have been days out on Chesapeake Bay where I couldn't pick out
crab pot buoys at more than 25 feet because of fog.




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