Hi Rob,
Good story. I love these.
We could add the moral, "And keep a good watch
when you're on starboard tack too." to encourage the youngsters out there.
Cheers, Russ
east Vancouver Island
P.S. The list might be active with west coasters
tomorrow. There is a snowfall warning, we could
get over 2 inches tonight & tomorrow.
At 01:56 PM 21/02/2014, you wrote:
Rick:
No offense taken....I appreciate the
'constructive response' you always make on this
forum, no matter what the subject matter....I
don't mind telling stories of my sailing
experiences where I can say "I survived / lived
through that one"...... and I can think of a lot
over the past 50 years. I would like to think
that sharing these tails on this forum might
help others to avoid putting their lives and
vessels at risk. And responses like yours can
point the way to the right way of doing it.
But that said, here's another quick story from a
few years back.....out for an afternoon sail
with my brother (and he's a good sailor) in the
outer harbor, open water, perfect visibility
..... relaxed, having a beer, talking, looking
out and around every few minutes....no boats in
sight.....port tack on a close reach.....still
didn't see another boat....then, holly s--t, a
CS 36 passed across our bow on starboard tack at
full speed......maybe a boat length or two in
front of us.....and we thought we were the only
boat out there. Lesson here: 2 boats each
traveling at +6 knts directly towards each other
can make 2 miles disappear within 10
minutes......I now pay better attention to that little bit of math.
Does you remember the Clint Eastwood movie
"UNFORGIVEN ".....there is a line in the movie
when Clint says to Morgan Freeman and the kid "
I ain't like that anymore ". Well, I ain't
like that anymore. Now, even when I am out for
a pleasure sail, I am on total alert to the
point I might annoy someone....at least this 'old mind' thinks so.
Regards
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2014/02/21 3:45 PM, Rick Brass wrote:
Rob;
I didnt mean to be insulting or didactic. I
was going for ironic, but see I didnt quite make the trip.
Ive done some risky things myself in the past
40 make that 50 years. I have had a few
moments when I said Crap! I could have died last night!
But Ive always been really cautious when
aweigh in fog. Even if you had the best chart
plotter in the world to help keep track of the
channel markers, the plotter isnt going to
show another boat crossing your course at 5
knots. And I hate trying to steer by the
plotter in the fog, because fog is so
disorienting and its so difficult to steer a steady course.
Rick
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On 2014/02/21 12:30 AM, Rick Brass wrote:
Rick:
In a later post on this incident, I said we
should have been traveling at a lower speed
given the lack of visibility and the lack of
electronics....we knew that then, as well, but we were taking risks.
After passing the buoy to our port about 5 feet
away, we then slowed down to 3 kts....it was a
sobering feeling....we got away with this one!
Rob
Rob,
Re: Hitting a buoy at 6.5 knots in the fog
See COLREGS rule 6.
I think of it as the marine equivalent of the
Basic Speed Limit in effect for cars in the
US to be able to stop in the assured clear distance ahead
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Some years back on a friend's C&C 34R with no
chartplotter or radar, we were motoring home
after a race was called for lack of wind, in
the fog, and dam near ran into a navigational
bouy . It could have been really ugly hitting
that immovable object at 6.5 knots.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
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