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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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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! |
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Joe's always in a fog.
"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message reenews.ne t... "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 |
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We keep a 50 lb. sack of throwing potatos on deck. When one
goes, THUNK, you turn. "Joe" wrote in message ups.com... 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 |
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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 |
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