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Fwd: Subject: [TheDingyDock] Skip and Lydia Gundlach need help
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:03:10 -0500, Larry wrote:
Put in Marathon, FL and take a look at it. What a TERRIBLE place to go sailing! This area would be awful in a flats boat! Running aground with a 6' keel is inevitable, not just a chance. Google Earth is free from http://earth.google.com/ Look at the bottom where YOU sail. It's not quite that bad. We've run both north and south from Marathon never seeing less than 7 feet or so. You do have to be careful however and stay very close to your route. Sailing it would not be advisable except in ideal conditions. If there is one single lesson to be learned from this, I think it is to be *very* wary of becoming fatigued, particularly in bad conditions and close quarters. I've had some personal experience with this and it is all to easy to find yourself making questionable decisions after you've been on the go for a day or two. I don't want to sound like I'm second guessing, but there are any number of good places to seek shelter from an easterly coming south along Florida's west coast. There was a case in the northeast a number of years ago where a woman was sailing transatlantic from England to Newport, Rhode Island. After several days of fog and rough weather she made a navigational error, mistaking Pt Judith Light for Brenton Tower. After successfully sailing over 3,000 miles, she parked the boat on the rocks at Pt Judith. |
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