Always hearing this mod thinking, and hearing questions related to experience as if there is an invisable shield out there that will 'shift' a storm out of ones path. Racing yachts saying well WE'RE fast we can out-run it. The intellectual approach, this book states the fellow saw a max of 25 knots of wind while circumnavigating, and besides we have a weather-fax, so we can change direction, and so it goes. If you are goineg cruising prepare for the worst storm you have ever even heard of, the worst of all scenerios, and it might not be enough then, but you do your best. Everyone gets 'caught out' sooner or later. A friend was caught out in a typhoon on an aircraft carrier, think they don't do their very best to avoid the worst wearther? They are fast, have mucho fancy radar, weather-fax etc and ships get nailed STILL. When making a passage in a sailboat, 100 or even 200nm per day, you cannot see the weather far enough ahead, nor can the pilot charts, Jimmy Cornell nor any system; YOU WILL BE ON YOUR OWN. Coastal hopping example, the San Juans to Mexico. Well then, if you keep a hawk-eye on the weather, and scurry from one port to another, the odds are wellin your favor that you can have a pleasant sail, if you have lots of time and do not get antsy. I got caught out once when the Coast Guard 'closed the bar' as high surf came in, likely from a storm 1000 miles out at sea, so had to keep on agoin so ended up getting nailed by a low, not bad. BTW sounds like some mates need to sign up for a "Power Squadron Course" Very good course, my first was when 14. There is no 'right of way' and as I stated before in admiralty court they ALWAYS spread the blame in a collision. Stay out of fairways, separation zones, and take a sharp angle of attack whence crossing when need be. I announce on VHF any intention on a fifteen-minute schedule in heavy fog. Watch for those two or three vertical white lights, it is a tug with tow, and each tow (can have two) could be 400 yards behind him; times 2 = 1/2 mile.
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Always hearing this mod thinking, and hearing questions related to experience as if there is an invisable shield out there that will 'shift' a storm out of ones path. Racing yachts saying well WE'RE fast we can out-run it. The intellectual approach, this book states the fellow saw a max of 25 knots of wind while circumnavigating, and besides we have a weather-fax, so we can change direction, and so it goes. If you are goineg cruising prepare for the worst storm you have ever even heard of, the worst of all scenerios, and it might not be enough then, but you do your best. Everyone gets 'caught out' sooner or later. A friend was caught out in a typhoon on an aircraft carrier, think they don't do their very best to avoid the worst wearther? They are fast, have mucho fancy radar, weather-fax etc and ships get nailed STILL. When making a passage in a sailboat, 100 or even 200nm per day, you cannot see the weather far enough ahead, nor can the pilot charts, Jimmy Cornell nor any system; YOU WILL BE ON YOUR OWN. Coastal hopping example, the San Juans to Mexico. Well then, if you keep a hawk-eye on the weather, and scurry from one port to another, the odds are wellin your favor that you can have a pleasant sail, if you have lots of time and do not get antsy. I got caught out once when the Coast Guard 'closed the bar' as high surf came in, likely from a storm 1000 miles out at sea, so had to keep on agoin so ended up getting nailed by a low, not bad. BTW sounds like some mates need to sign up for a "Power Squadron Course" Very good course, my first was when 14. There is no 'right of way' and as I stated before in admiralty court they ALWAYS spread the blame in a collision. Stay out of fairways, separation zones, and take a sharp angle of attack whence crossing when need be. I announce on VHF any intention on a fifteen-minute schedule in heavy fog. Watch for those two or three vertical white lights, it is a tug with tow, and each tow (can have two) could be 400 yards behind him; times 2 = 1/2 mile.- Status