On 4/9/10 1:31 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:56:43 -0400,
wrote:

So, how do you avoid lobster traps while boating in the fog?

Slowly and with great care. Even in Maine pea soup you can usually
see 50 to 100 ft. The radar is for avoiding other boats and locating
nav aids.

Being able to see lobster pots in thick fog is actually a good thing
because the lobstermen rarely set in less than 6 or 7 ft of water.


That's really interesting, Wayne, because some years ago I was out guest
"lobstering" with a friend of a friend off of Swans Island, Maine, and
the fog was as thick as pea soup on the way back. We couldn't see far
enough ahead to locate trap floats 50 feet away, or even 25 feet away.
We got back okay, but it felt as if we were in that scene in the movie
MacArthur (with Gregory Peck) on the way to Australia on the PT Boat,
running through mine fields.

There have been days out on Chesapeake Bay where I couldn't pick out
crab pot buoys at more than 25 feet because of fog.




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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:47:42 -0400, hk
wrote:

That's really interesting, Wayne, because some years ago I was out guest
"lobstering" with a friend of a friend off of Swans Island, Maine, and
the fog was as thick as pea soup on the way back. We couldn't see far
enough ahead to locate trap floats 50 feet away, or even 25 feet away.

I have no doubt at all that your fog is thicker than my fog, or anyone
elses for that matter.

On 4/9/10 8:25 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:47:42 -0400,
wrote:

That's really interesting, Wayne, because some years ago I was out guest
"lobstering" with a friend of a friend off of Swans Island, Maine, and
the fog was as thick as pea soup on the way back. We couldn't see far
enough ahead to locate trap floats 50 feet away, or even 25 feet away.

I have no doubt at all that your fog is thicker than my fog, or anyone
elses for that matter.


It wasn't my fog, w'hine. I was simply a passenger on a working lobster
boat. Of course, if it had been as big as your boat, we could have seen
right through the fog.

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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:03:50 -0400, hk
wrote:

It wasn't my fog, w'hine. I was simply a passenger on a working lobster
boat. Of course, if it had been as big as your boat, we could have seen
right through the fog.

Too bad you are not still out there doing some real work for a change,
learning about real people and real boats.

On 4/10/10 10:53 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:03:50 -0400,
wrote:

It wasn't my fog, w'hine. I was simply a passenger on a working lobster
boat. Of course, if it had been as big as your boat, we could have seen
right through the fog.

Too bad you are not still out there doing some real work for a change,
learning about real people and real boats.

W'hine, w'hine, w'hine...I'm still "out there doing real work...you're
the one doing nothing of consequence.

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:31:35 -0400, hk
wrote:

I'm still "out there doing real work.

I had no idea that trolling Usenet was considered work these days.

How are the pay and benefits?

On 4/10/10 2:09 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:31:35 -0400,
wrote:

I'm still "out there doing real work.

I had no idea that trolling Usenet was considered work these days.

How are the pay and benefits?

Trolling usenet? My guess is that you post in more newsgroups than I do,
w'hine.


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