I'm not familiar with that area but if it's shallow enough for two
hundred feet of anchor rode to reach bottom I would have struck
the sails, anchored and sounded the proper signals for a vessel at
anchor.

A pea soup thick fog is simply too dangerous to muck around in
without radar. I would not start such a journey in a pea soup
thick fog and if one developed along the way I would do the above.

S.Simon


"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message ...
So here's a simple question for Neal:

By some miracle you sailed your boat up to New England where we have real fog. You're
crossing Vineyard Sound in a pea soup fog, with a 20 knot SW breeze. I assume you're
carrying full sail, since you've often said that anything less would be unsafe.

You now hear a fog signal close by, roughly off the bow. It is a "prolonged-short-short".
What do you do?