A screen capture from a Facebook post. This little town is about a 25 minute drive from where I was brought up. Lobster country. Yum.
And I Complain About 12’ Tides
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You learn to run radar.
Yes, I was anchored out one day, took the dinghy to shore and when I came back wasn't sure I would be able to find my boat in the fog. But I did.
dj
Funny, but my experience rowing out into a foggy anchorage on the coast of Maine, it was the white hulls that were easiest to see first. It can be disconcerting to row up to the wrong boat in a mooring field in the fog.
At least the granite coastline is well charted and doesn't shift or shoal with every storm that goes through. Learning to navigate in the fog can be exciting and teach you a lot.
A verse from the song Spanish Ladies, "We hove our ship to with the wind from Southwest boys. We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear. It was forty-five fathoms with a white sandy bottom, so we squared our main yard and up channel did steer."
An example of old-time navigation techniques. The wind direction, the depth, and bottom composition all contribute to confirming position. I've even used the echo of an airhorn to detect nearby land.
-Will
At least the granite coastline is well charted and doesn't shift or shoal with every storm that goes through. Learning to navigate in the fog can be exciting and teach you a lot.
A verse from the song Spanish Ladies, "We hove our ship to with the wind from Southwest boys. We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear. It was forty-five fathoms with a white sandy bottom, so we squared our main yard and up channel did steer."
An example of old-time navigation techniques. The wind direction, the depth, and bottom composition all contribute to confirming position. I've even used the echo of an airhorn to detect nearby land.
-Will
I just used my lead line to determine the course into a fuel dock, and checked to see if I had enough bottom to stay at the dock overnight.
Simple to do - hung the lead line at my boats depth at low tide, slowly rowed towards the dock. If the line moved, I'd check depth. Discovered i had no route into the dock, needed to wait on high tide, but at the dock i was OK.
dj
Simple to do - hung the lead line at my boats depth at low tide, slowly rowed towards the dock. If the line moved, I'd check depth. Discovered i had no route into the dock, needed to wait on high tide, but at the dock i was OK.
dj
Ya get used to those a lot easier than the fog.... They can become your friend. I used to clean the bottom of my boat as the tide went out and usually could get it both cleaned and painted in one tidal cycle. Sometimes it took two.and the tide swings...
dj
We spent the Summer Star Wars came out at McLoons Warf in Rockland Maine, '77, I believe. At times, we jump a short hop down to the dock, other times, it was a twelve foot climb on seaweed covered ladder rungs to get on and off the boat. Grocery shopping could be a challenge.
-Will
-Will
It's all about timing...
Running your dock lines is s learning curve... I once came back to my boat beginning to hang off the lines... Glad I came back when I did...
dj