Fog

[Hank]

Sailing in fog!?Don't you mean "Motoring in fog"?Or "Getting caught in a fog"?How does one "sail" without wind?Hank

 

[Ken Cobb]

Sailing

In the thread last week, with its 40 or so responses, there were some stories of people who actually had wind with their fog, and were able to keep sailing.

 

[Les Murray]

I sailed in Narragansett Bay with fog

Last Summer I went out one day and sailed in fog. Had about 10 kts. of wind. It was actually a nice sail, once you got past the fact that you couldn't see anything. I navigated by GPS and just had to be sure not to run into any islands.Les Murrays/v Ceilidh86 C-36 #560

 

[Roland]

Sailing in fog

There are several types of fog. One type we get here on the west coast of Fl. in winter comes in when the gulf water is cool, usually below 60 degrees, and the wind is blowing some warmer moist air out of the SW. The name for that type escapes me at the moment. When that moist air hits the cooler water it condenses into thick pea-soup fog. We can still sail but the best course of action is to heave to, put the radar reflector up, and keeping ringing the bell.-Rolands/v Fraulein II

 

[Al S]

Advection Fog/Sea Fog usually is accompanied by..

a 10 to 15 knot or greater wind. So yes you can sail in fog. Roland was referring to a Sea Fog which advected into the coastal waters.

 

[Mark]

Motoring in fog, chart plotter gps lead the way

Fog in Prince William Sound set in the arm of the bay that has the small boat harbor, rradio reports said there was no fog 9 miles past the narrows. so we headed out, seems we had about 100 years visability but it was gray everwhere with fishing boats leaving at the same time. Since they travel about 10 knts we set the speed at 13 and watched the chart plotter to keep us on track. I would not gone if we could not see that far ahead and were under power and could adjust speed to trafice going out. Plan to add a JRC1000 this year for such cases.It was clear after we passed the narrows.As the radio reports had stated.Mark

 

[Warren]

Hudson River Fog!

I sailed the Hudson for 8 seasons. This was before the days of the GPS. I would use a GPS to slowly sail out of the shipping channel. The biggest danger on the Hudson is the heavy/large traffic.Good Luck!