[Rhodes22-list] Sailing at Night

[Bill Effros]

Michael,

About those high speed fairies...

Bill Effros

Michel Meltzer wrote:

>I also add,
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>When I going somewhere I generally like to do it at night, moving around
>the sound means avoiding hitting rocks, otherwise know as land, avoiding
>tugs with long line tows, high speed fairies, dreg fishing and sea going
>ship(you know the ones that will wonder for a few seconds where that
>blue streak on their bow came from after you are run over), the list
>keeps going. If you are smart about it, you set your course about 100
>yards offset outside of the buoys on rumlines and I run the charting GPS
>the whole night to make sure I stay their(or outside), and the charts to
>double check depths and hard things. Ed there are 10 light house
>visiable from my docks and generaly 10 visible anywhere on the sound,
>their not their to be pretty, or beacon to come to, their to stay away
>from because dead reckoning has gotten people dead.
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>-mjm    
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
>>bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Bill Effros
>>Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:16 PM
>>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sailing at Night
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>>I love to sail at night.  It's really interesting.  But it really
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>helps
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>>to know where you are at any given time.  This requires a full-time
>>skilled navigator.  It you don't have one on board, a GPS will do in a
>>pinch if you have lost sight of your bearings.
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>>Bill Effros
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>>Mary Lou Troy wrote:
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>>>Ed,
>>>While I don't like being out in fog and low visibility (it's almost
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>never
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>>zero) any cruising sailor can get caught in a sudden rainstorm or have
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>>make it home in low visibility. The Rhodes 22 makes a wonderful
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>cruising
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>>boat for a couple. We find our handheld GPS a solid backup to our
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>coastal
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>>navigation skills. Among other things we know when we are entering a
>>shipping channel and the quickest way across which in low visibility
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>is a
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>>real plus.
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>>>Mary Lou
>>>1991  R22 Fretless
>>>Ft. Washington, PA / Rock Hall, MD & Swan Creek
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>>>>From: ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net>
>>>>Date: Fri Feb 10 08:00:43 CST 2006
>>>>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] GPS reply to Captain Meltzer, Dave, Art,
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>>>>Michael,
>>>>	A Rhodes 22 should not be out in fog and zero visibility.
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>However,
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>>>>if you are then you should also have radar.  Do you have radar?
>>>>	Mr. Rummy posted your email site last fall, was this just a
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>>>>up?
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>>>>Art,
>>>>	Your reply to Dave will get you on Mr. Rummy's black list.
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>>>>Dave,
>>>>	Captain Keller did not inform you of his South Carolina and
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>Georgia
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>>>>coastal trips.  You will have to search the archives for those
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>>informative
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>>>>posts.
>>>>	Dave said regarding Stan, "May delivery here assuming he is on
>>>>schedule with his new construction process."  So explain to the list
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>>what
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>>>>his new construction process is?  Is he not using Calvin to make one
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>>boat at
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>>>>a time?  Or has he enclosed a room so that he can have it warmer and
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>>work
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>>>>even on the coldest days?  You let it slip, now the details.
>>>>	If you need a fancy GPS for Lake Champlain, have you considered
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>>>>sonar unit to look for Nessie?
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>>>>Todd,
>>>>	Lighten up.
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>>>>Bill,
>>>>	Slim is the one with the hair.
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>>>>Ed K
>>>>Greenville, SC, USA
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