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Boat crash in Ft. Lauderdale
Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 07:05:19 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 1/1/2020 10:50 PM, Justan Ohlphart wrote: Wrote in message: On Wed, 01 Jan 2020 13:00:28 -0500, John H. wrote:On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 16:45:16 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:John H. wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:13:43 -0500, Alex wrote: Last night... https://wsvn.com/news/local/several-injured-after-boat-crashes-into-jetty-near-fort-lauderdale/ Cocktails? Not every jetty shows up on a GPS. That happened a few times in Deale, MD, when folks would follow the GPS to get home. Midnight and speed. He was not going slow to get that far up the rocks ina 42’ boat.For sure speed. Same thing happens in Deale. Going fast and taking the line offered by the GPS hasbeen the problem more than once. Everyone knows I am the real Luddite here but I fear modernelectronics is taking the place of basic seamanship and the importanceof local knowledge. Why do you fear modern ways of navigating? If you should ever decide to expand your horizons, you might embrace some of the newer technology available. I think that the advent of GPS, chart plotters and radar (if understood and used properly) have made boating (and aviation) much safer than in the days of compasses and paper charts. === There's no question about it. I started long distance cruising in 1974 when we bought our first sailboat big enough to sleep on. We had no electronic aids at all other than an old fashioned, flashing light depth sounder, and an inexpensive radio direction finder which was cumbersome to use and very imprecise. The RDF and depth sounder put us ahead of many other boat of that time however, and we navigated for many years and thousands of miles with nothing else. Dead reckoning and shore bearings were the gold standards of coastal navigation until the mid 1980s when Loran-C became widely available. Suddenly we now knew where we were within 100 yards or so, at least most of the time. I can remember as a kid in the 1950’s, using a cheap portable radio with a directional antenna to help navigate back to the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog from the Farallon Islands. A coupe radio stations had a tower by the eastern end of the Oakland Bay Bridge which somewhat lined up with the Gate. |
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Boat crash in Ft. Lauderdale
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 17:04:44 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 07:05:19 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 1/1/2020 10:50 PM, Justan Ohlphart wrote: Wrote in message: On Wed, 01 Jan 2020 13:00:28 -0500, John H. wrote:On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 16:45:16 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:John H. wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:13:43 -0500, Alex wrote: Last night... https://wsvn.com/news/local/several-injured-after-boat-crashes-into-jetty-near-fort-lauderdale/ Cocktails? Not every jetty shows up on a GPS. That happened a few times in Deale, MD, when folks would follow the GPS to get home. Midnight and speed. He was not going slow to get that far up the rocks ina 42? boat.For sure speed. Same thing happens in Deale. Going fast and taking the line offered by the GPS hasbeen the problem more than once. Everyone knows I am the real Luddite here but I fear modernelectronics is taking the place of basic seamanship and the importanceof local knowledge. Why do you fear modern ways of navigating? If you should ever decide to expand your horizons, you might embrace some of the newer technology available. I think that the advent of GPS, chart plotters and radar (if understood and used properly) have made boating (and aviation) much safer than in the days of compasses and paper charts. === There's no question about it. I started long distance cruising in 1974 when we bought our first sailboat big enough to sleep on. We had no electronic aids at all other than an old fashioned, flashing light depth sounder, and an inexpensive radio direction finder which was cumbersome to use and very imprecise. The RDF and depth sounder put us ahead of many other boat of that time however, and we navigated for many years and thousands of miles with nothing else. Dead reckoning and shore bearings were the gold standards of coastal navigation until the mid 1980s when Loran-C became widely available. Suddenly we now knew where we were within 100 yards or so, at least most of the time. I can remember as a kid in the 1950’s, using a cheap portable radio with a directional antenna to help navigate back to the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog from the Farallon Islands. A coupe radio stations had a tower by the eastern end of the Oakland Bay Bridge which somewhat lined up with the Gate. I started using the radio towers here for a visual indication of where I was and they all have unique blink rates at night so they are easy to differentiate. It turns out there are three that do an excellent job of marking the path you need to move around in the bay at night and if you also use the 96 K-Rock tower, in conjunction with the bridge lights to get through Big Carlos Pass without hitting the bars on both sides. |
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