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Originally Posted by craigtoo
I learned to sail in the LI Sound.... Smithtown bay is pretty bad... We've run aground several times... always managed to get unstuck..
The first time I took my new (to me) boat out a few weeks ago from Sailcraft in Oriental... it took all of 8 minutes to run aground. Thunk...
Dad and I laughed our butts off... we got unstuck... and ... promptly ran aground again 2 minutes later.
Drive by feel.... heh... l was being stupid and looking at my GPS saying.. "we should have 5 feet of water here!!!"
Dad gave me the "look at the damn markers and not at your stupid TV" speech...(well.. he's German so it was more like the "Look ver za hell your going and schtop wis zis TV bull$*&%..." speech... well deserved... heh...
craig |
Not that hard to go aground coming out of Whittaker Creek. I've been in and out a number of times, and even in the channel, had moments when the depth sounder made me look twice.
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