Weekend Videos; Grandma on Board in Fog

[sailortjk1]

Maybe this will lighten up the place a bit.
My soon to be 80 year old Mother still enjoys a leisurley sail.
Please no jokes............ anyway, sailing this weekend somebody (not Grandma) sailed us right into a fog bank.
We had hopped to pop out the otherside, but that never happened.
Fog only lifted after we went back where we came from.

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Grandma on Board Julianna

[lbdavis]

Sailortjk1,

Grandma rocks. But, I think it's weird that you turned on music when the fog rolled in. I question your choice of music even more than turning it on! Is it safe to play that song while on the water?

[FortWorthPhil]

I caught that too LB. Cat Stevens is real cool to listen to in the living room, but a little scary to tempt the ghost of the Big Fitz during the fog on open water. I kept waiting the hear the bell toll. Cool video, thanks for sharing.

Gotta love grandma's. I sure miss mine. Cherish those times mate.

Cheers

Philip

[sailortjk1]

Originally Posted by FortWorthPhil

I caught that too LB. Cat Stevens is real cool to listen to in the living room, but a little scary to tempt the ghost of the Big Fitz during the fog on open water. I kept waiting the hear the bell toll. Cool video, thanks for sharing.

Gotta love grandma's. I sure miss mine. Cherish those times mate.

Cheers

Philip

Phil, thats Gordon Lightfoot and it is always in my ten disc changer. I listen to it all the time along with the Sound track from one of the three Pirate Movies. Nothing like a little Great Lakes Shipwrek music to get ya going.

[djodenda]

We were almost run down by the Fitz on our Shark back in the mid-sixties

We got our revenge.

[FortWorthPhil]

My apologies. Giving Cat credit for that song. It is a great tune, don't know what I was thinking. Wife switched me to decaf, man I just can't function anymore. lol

Thanks for correcting me.

Cheers

[RAGTIMEDON]

Heck, that ain't fog. We sailed out of South Haven Michigan on a beautiful day back in the 70's, heading for Bailey's Harbor in Wisconsin. Hit a fog bank 15 miles off the Wisconsin shore so thick we couldn't see 10 feet. I was at the mast listening, my daughter was at the bow looking for shore, boats, or anything else, my friend Jim was at the helm of a 38 center cockpit sloop, and I couldn't see either one of them! We stayed in Bailey's Harbor two days before we could see enough to venture out again! Thank God for foghorns! Without the foghorn we would never have found the marina. Second day we met a guy in a 26 or 28 foot Swan who was rammed by an idiot fisherman in the pea soup. Only time in my life I was scared while sailing, and I have lived through some bad storms on Lake Michigan. After that experience, my advice would be - don't ever plan on popping out the other side! Go back if you can.