Foggy bottom boys

[kenai]

Interesting day out of Garibaldi today, crossed the bar around 8:00 AM and took a northerly course. A Serious fog rolled in around 9:30. We made several drifts waiting for a burn off or the wind to scour it out. Headed back around 1:00, fortunately I remembered the GPS will gladly take you right through a jetty to get to its waypoint. After checking the chart to determine if it was the north or south jetty I was lookin at (north has a green horn) we pulled in safely. Point is, the gps is just one tool available. We talked to a fella at the dock at Garibaldi that put his boat in at Nehalem and accidently entered the surf looking for the jetty, he eventually came to garibaldi to get back in. Slow day too, 1 native silver and a couple of takedowns.

[Lepper]

I know I love my gps.... I even got ambitious and went out on a nice clear day and marked the channel's for the local bar crossings.... I just need a calm foggy day to give er a go!
dave

[Miss B Haven]

Lepper - carefull what you wish for. I would just go out on a clear day and close my eyes if I wanted to practice. I got all the stuff and pretty much know how to use it, That doesn't mean I have to. Only the coast guard "has to go out", none of us "have to come back".
I guess I get vertigo in that fog (or just paranoia), but I think I would rather be in 10 plus foot breaking waves and see than go out when I can't see anything but the nose of my boat on a flat ocean.
I've been there and done that, but it wasn't by choice. GPS will certainly help you get back home, but practicing in fog ain't anything I would wish for.

two eyes on the compass
two on the radar
one on the chart
and one on the sounder
one on the bow
and one on the stern

one ear on one radio
and one on the other
one on the waves
and one on the bells
one on the boat
and one on your mates

one arm on the wheel
and one arm on the other
to hold that wheel

one brain tracking that course
and one brain keeping that course
the big brain thinking:

Dear God I love this sea
please let me live
to be here again

Hmmm... Bedtime.. Miss B clear

[avid]

Lepper,

What GPS unit did you purchase? It seems to me you said you didn't have one at first.