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JAXAshby wrote: over-the-knee, you make a loser flip-flop politician look good by comparison. so, which it is, o-t-k? making harbor at night is good or bad? keep in the mind the original poster was asking about making an unknown harbor, but expand the definition to include any harbor you wish, including your bathtub. Once again, Doodles, your inexperience is showing. Whether it's a known harbor or an unknown harbor, making the approach can be touchy, especially at night, and especially if you feel uncomfortable with what you are seeing. There's nothing flipflop about my statement, just some good sound advice, in addition to what Rosalie stated. The fact that you don't understand either, just adds to our collective sense of your inexperience. otn From: otnmbrd Date: 11/10/2004 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time Message-id: k.net Always good advice. If you are not familiar with a particular landfall, never be afraid to hold off or at least do a few "round turns" until you can feel comfortable with your position and route of approach .... even with those you are normally familiar with. Even with GPS, radar, your visual/ mental sense of what is around you and where you are, is extremely important to your "comfort factor" when navigating in any restricted or close quarters. otn |
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otnmbrd wrote: JAXAshby wrote: over-the-knee, you make a loser flip-flop politician look good by comparison. so, which it is, o-t-k? making harbor at night is good or bad? keep in the mind the original poster was asking about making an unknown harbor, but expand the definition to include any harbor you wish, including your bathtub. Once again, Doodles, your inexperience is showing. Whether it's a known harbor or an unknown harbor, making the approach can be touchy, especially at night, and especially if you feel uncomfortable with what you are seeing. There's nothing flipflop about my statement, just some good sound advice, in addition to what Rosalie stated. The fact that you don't understand either, just adds to our collective sense of your inexperience. otn Known or unknown, any harbor at night can be a problem. I've entered "a few" at night over the years, and the most difficult to date was our HOME port. On a dark night, there are only two dim markers on the bulkhead that are VERY difficult to separate from the background clutter. Miss them to either side, and we'd be on rather unforgiving rocks. We regularly travel after dark on the Chesapeake to extend our (mostly) weekend range. The anchorages are truly in our back yard and by now, we know most of them better than most, but in each case, we treat them with extra respect in the dark. Truth be told, we're more worried about crab trap floats than the bottom, so enter more comfortably under sail than power. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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