North Atlantic Adventure!

[Scott T-Bird]

I was just looking at other pictures from that day … this one shows the north jetty wall just after high tide when we were leaving the inlet. The red marker on the pylon marks the end of the stone jetty, even though you can't see it while submerged. You can barely see some fishermen standing at the end of the exposed jetty just to the left of the boat with the green hull.

You can see the fishing boats basically on both sides of the jetty. Some of those smaller boats will knowingly or, even unknowingly, drive right across the jetty at high tide. A sailboat would ground there for sure!

 

[jssailem]

Perhaps that is why they call it ‘dead reckoning’, when you head out to sea with nothing more than a boat and a prayer.

 

[DayDreamer41]

Making that jetty visible during daylight hours would only resolve 1/2 the problem caused by poor navigational awareness, night time is the other half. Where I grew up and learned to sail we had a lighthouse on the end of a pier which extended about a 1/4 ml out into the shallow lake, there was a lighted road way on the pier and given all this there were multiple annual accidents where boaters with poor spacial awareness would run into the pier, many people over time were injured and killed.
Boaters are a interesting bunch, if you have the money anyone can go out and purchase any type of boat they want, regardless of the skill required to navigate one.