Pea Soup
 

It's that time of year here. The fog was thick as pea soup last night.

Should be the same tonight, and many many nights until Febuary or so.

Nothing like sailing in thick fog, most times the wind is light, it's
and erie feeling of flying out on the pulpit when you can not see the
water. I can understand why blind people love sailing.

Here it's pretty easy to know what direction you are sailing on the
lake and how close you are to shore. I call it sailing by glow & smell
o vision...no compass needed.

Anyone else here enjoy the challenge and magic of sailing in Pea Soup?

Joe

Pea Soup
 

"Joe" wrote
Anyone else here enjoy the challenge and magic of sailing in Pea Soup?

Not me. Around here people in motorboats don't even slow down when it's foggy.
None of them makes the proper Colreg sound signals. They just go along lickety split
with their noses in their GPS navigators. They don't realize that thing doesn't tell
them where boats are. Duh!
Nothing ruins the quiet and mystery of fog if you have to honk a horn or ring a bell
every couple of minutes and worry about some jerk hitting you. Nope. Not for me......

Cheers,
Ellen

Pea Soup
 

Joe wrote:
It's that time of year here. The fog was thick as pea soup last night.

Should be the same tonight, and many many nights until Febuary or so.

Nothing like sailing in thick fog, most times the wind is light, it's
and erie feeling of flying out on the pulpit when you can not see the
water. I can understand why blind people love sailing.

Here it's pretty easy to know what direction you are sailing on the
lake and how close you are to shore. I call it sailing by glow & smell
o vision...no compass needed.

Anyone else here enjoy the challenge and magic of sailing in Pea Soup?

Joe

I hate sailing in fog...even with radar deflectors, GPS, and all the
gizmos in the world it is still a dangerous situation to be in unless
you're out of the shipping lanes in the middle of an ocean...I do like
walking through fog, though...

Pea Soup
 

Joe wrote:
It's that time of year here. The fog was thick as pea soup last night.

Should be the same tonight, and many many nights until Febuary or so.

Nothing like sailing in thick fog, most times the wind is light, it's
and erie feeling of flying out on the pulpit when you can not see the
water. I can understand why blind people love sailing.

Here it's pretty easy to know what direction you are sailing on the
lake and how close you are to shore. I call it sailing by glow & smell
o vision...no compass needed.

Anyone else here enjoy the challenge and magic of sailing in Pea Soup?

I'm not sure "enjoy" is quite the right word. I've done it many
times, with and without electronics, and I do find it a worthy
challenge. I've seen a lot of pea soup in Maine, but that doesn't
worry me much because almost everyone there knows how to handle it.
Points south, such as Buzzard's Bay are scary because the sport
fishermen are still doing 35 knots and probably don't know how to turn
on their radar. The few times I saw it in FL I decided not to leave
the dock. On one of those days someone hit the side of the Naples-Key
West ferry at high speed, with fatal results.

I do enjoy the feeling I get after having survived a run in the fog!

Pea Soup
 

Joe's always in a fog.


"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in
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"Joe" wrote
Anyone else here enjoy the challenge and magic of
sailing in Pea Soup?

Not me. Around here people in motorboats don't even
slow down when it's foggy.
None of them makes the proper Colreg sound signals. They
just go along lickety split
with their noses in their GPS navigators. They don't
realize that thing doesn't tell
them where boats are. Duh!
Nothing ruins the quiet and mystery of fog if you have
to honk a horn or ring a bell
every couple of minutes and worry about some jerk hitting
you. Nope. Not for me......

Cheers,
Ellen

Pea Soup
 

We keep a 50 lb. sack of throwing potatos on deck. When one
goes, THUNK, you turn.


"Joe" wrote in message
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It's that time of year here. The fog was thick as pea soup
last night.

Should be the same tonight, and many many nights until
Febuary or so.

Nothing like sailing in thick fog, most times the wind is
light, it's
and erie feeling of flying out on the pulpit when you can
not see the
water. I can understand why blind people love sailing.

Here it's pretty easy to know what direction you are
sailing on the
lake and how close you are to shore. I call it sailing by
glow & smell
o vision...no compass needed.

Anyone else here enjoy the challenge and magic of sailing
in Pea Soup?

Joe

Pea Soup
 

Seahag wrote:

We keep a 50 lb. sack of throwing potatos on deck. When one
goes, THUNK, you turn.

Ah hah! We now have the secret of Haggie's "Active Forward Sonar"!
"Thunk" is so much more manly than a wimpy "ping".


Cheers
Marty