Capt. Rob wrote:
Was it not you who had no need for paper charts with your
sophisticated GPS and compass?

Nope. We always used paper charts.

Used as what? If you really used a chart, you wouldn't have hit a
rock a mile from your slip.

Used as what? If you really used a chart, you wouldn't have hit a
rock a mile from your slip.


Even your trolls are silly. Charts never kept anyone from hitting
bottom on occasion.

RB
35s5
NY

No, but competence does.

Most boaters have nudged a soft bottom on occasion, usually going very
slow, but there really is no excuse for hitting a charted rock at
three knots, especially after someone pointed it out.

Sorry Bob.


Capt. Rob wrote:
Used as what? If you really used a chart, you wouldn't have hit a
rock a mile from your slip.


Even your trolls are silly. Charts never kept anyone from hitting
bottom on occasion.

RB
35s5
NY

Jeff wrote:
No, but competence does.

Most boaters have nudged a soft bottom on occasion, usually going very
slow, but there really is no excuse for hitting a charted rock at three
knots, especially after someone pointed it out.

Sorry Bob.


Capt. Rob wrote:

Used as what? If you really used a chart, you wouldn't have hit a
rock a mile from your slip.


Even your trolls are silly. Charts never kept anyone from hitting
bottom on occasion.
RB
35s5
NY

Wait for it. You are tempting fate. There but for the grace of God........

Gary wrote:
Jeff wrote:
No, but competence does.

Most boaters have nudged a soft bottom on occasion, usually going very
slow, but there really is no excuse for hitting a charted rock at
three knots, especially after someone pointed it out.

Wait for it. You are tempting fate. There but for the grace of
God........

Yes, I know, my time may come yet. But I've made it almost 50 years
and a ****load of miles, mostly in New England, without whacking a
rock. Now that I think of it, most of my soft groundings were in the
the Mid-Atlantic states. In the Chesapeake, especially with a cat,
you can go up a creek until you nudge bottom. In New England, with a
rocky bottom and 10 foot tides, you quickly learn to be more careful.