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night sailing mistake
You think you are sooo experienced at this sort of thing but then you
dont do it for awhile and you get humbled. Went out last night for a nice night sail, first time in a couple of years. Took note of the flashing pattern of our entrance channel marker, a red light every second. Only went out about 3 miles. On way back in, suddenly we saw three red lights flashing at 1 sec intervals against light shore clutter. Decided it HAD to be the easternmost one so headed for it. Soon, it went out, surprise, surprise. Headed for middle one. Got within a half mile of shore and slowed down because I was nervous, very fortunate. Suddenly depth said 4', YIKES, 180 turn till I had 10'. Take out binocs. Hmmm. During flashes I can make out the tower structure of our channel marker under WESTERNMOST red light. Came in with no probs then. Our shoreline is prob easier than most at night due to very little lighting on shore and still I got fooled. I was casual about all of this because we have no rocks here, it is all mud flats and tide was due to be a very high in 3 hours so running aground would not have been a real prob but still............ |
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