Sea FOG???
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Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 09:22 PM
OK so i've been lurking on here a couple months. I have a '87 Hobie 16SE that owned since new. It suffered many years of neglect until I decided it needed a makeover. so I get her just right in time for winter. Well living in Newport NC affords me a few Indian summer days. Sunday December 9 72 degrees South wind 5-8 knots is one of them. Beautiful day, had a wonderful sail with nacraman57. Get STOKED looking at forecast for Monday SSE 15-20 small craft developing as day develops. Get to launch site at 9:30 ready to blow thru Morehead City waterfront on my way to Cape Lookout. All I can see is seafog. I mean that shit was thick!!! 150 yards is a channel marker that went in and out of sight until we decided sensible people don't sail in pea soup. As bad as I wanted to get out on that water I had to accept that there will be better days ahead. -
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Posted: Dec 11, 2012 - 07:29 AM
we get seafog this time of year. it can be real dangerous, especially near a channel. Lots of power boaters with GPS fly blind and cruise at 20-30mph relying in gps alone...
couldn't be a worse example of seamanship imho -
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Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 05:52 AM
We could hear powerboats go roaring by like there was unlimited visibility. I was not willing to chance my radar signature would keep me from becoming flotsam. There is definately people on the water totally unaware of potential dangers out there. -
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Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 06:54 AM
very few power boats have radar, most only gps -
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Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 02:26 PM
agreed
Coast Guard = radar
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