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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...
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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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Going aground.
Solid is how the boat felt sunny summer morning anchored off Wallace island. The tide hadn't start to retreat yet so I wasn't quite sure what was going on......till I started to rock the boat..........yep she's stuck. I tried using the inflatable with a Halyard to get it to over to no avail hmmmm.........I tried a few more things and decided I need another approach to this. I got my one burner stove through in a tea kettle, coffee & filters and dingied over to the dock to join the sunday morning spectators watching me. After coffee I went back over to the boat and ran a couple of lines to some trees and back to the cleats to keep it from completely going over being it was lying diagonally to a steep shore. I closed all the thru-hulls and removed the battery and then went back with my new friends on shore. Then when the tide was completely out I caught up on my spring chores and cleaned the bottom, something I wanted to do anyway so the day wasn't a complete loss. |
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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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yeah....pucker factor is pretty high..... 
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I think it is an all too common mistake to think that the icon on the screen of your chartplotter has anything to do with the reality of where your sailboat is. It doesn't. Using it as the sole navigation device is a bad idea. The icon on the chartplotter is an approximate representation of where electronic satellites are telling this black box where your boat is, set against an interpretation of reality by a cartographer who may or may not have been stoned while creating the chart, based on data that may be 100 years out of date. YMMV. |
Amen brother....had a big head slapping moment there when I realized.. Ooooh *THAT'S* what that Giant circle means around the little triangle when I'm zoomed all the way in...heh
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These were service mechanics.... 
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Hey the mechanics have a steady job from poor navigators who bounce off of everything out there. You would think that they would love them.
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These were service mechanics.... |
Then they must be laughing maniacally at the apparent "negative IQ" of the boat owners. |
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Ran aground, in a shipping lane, at night, in 20 Knot winds, with all sails fully deployed, in the rain, and with at least 5ft seas. Hit a "Spoil" area. Thought "Spoil" meant it was merely a place that raw sewerage was discharged. Duh.
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Nope, that's where they dump what they dredge up
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PBzeer-
I think he's figured that out now.
Jr-
If you thought it was a place that raw sewage was discharged, wouldn't you want to avoid it anyways...  or do you really like sailing in xxxx??
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her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
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heeeeyyyyy
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i'd like to think i have at least a room temperature IQ.
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