jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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Man... follow the Nike Motto... Just Do It.The draft on a hunter 280 with a wing keel has a draft of 3'6".
I loved my time sailing from near Baltimore to Annapolis and back. Sure the boat drew 5 and bit feet. We sailed and motored there and back. Discovered some abandoned light houses place to make boaters aware of the shoals this past May.
I remember on a sail form NAS Norfolk up to and into the Rappihannock that shallow water extends a fair way out to the pimary North/South channels. While my Helmsman (my dad then a Supply Captain) ventured west of the channel buoys. Suddenly there was a bump and shudder that got me out of the cabin where I was sorting sails... Seeing the rhumb line was some 100 yards to the east, I regained the helm and corrected our course to get us out into deeper water. I suggesed to the Captain that getting stuck in shallow water was not a good idea. He agreed said he had just lost sigh of the next buoy. It was a great time on the Chesapeak. One of those beautiful clear sunny days when the wind is out of the west. It seems you can sail on a reach forever.