Larry W4CSC wrote:
Very well written. Glad you're all safe.


Thank you very much.

A friend and I moved another friend's Endeavour 35 from where he left it on
the dock at Daytona Beach, up the ditch to Mayport, then at sea to
Charleston. After a great night of excellent winds, the sun rose and we
left the autopilot steering to get some breakfast. As we set chatting of
our great luck, a HUGE, empty, wooden cable reel that was easily larger
than the boat floated by several boatlengths away.

I still shudder at the thought of ramming that damned cable reel in the
total darkness of the preceding night. The Raymarine 2KW radar never made
a blip. The reel was totally radar transparent, even 10 boatlengths away
with the low pole-mounted antenna.


And stuff like that can be really hard to spot, what with waves & a jib
in the way etc etc.

One reason why I'd be interested in a boat with positive flotation and
perhaps a Kevlar hull!

Got any idea the lat/long of those pipes sticking up? Are they on the
chart?


Not on the chart, and I have no idea what it could have been. The best
answer I can give as to location is that it's approx 15 nm SE of the tip
of Frying Pan Shoals (Cape Fear). You're the only person (so far) to be
interested in that question. It was by far the scariest moment of the
trip for me!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King