Good on ýa. When folks look at my foredeck and call it skinny I prefer
to say that I have a ´fine entry.´ <VBG>
Which reminds me of a funny moment sailing into San Diego in 2009. It
was one of those days when the California fog hit big time. Visibility
was about 30 feet, and I kept turning to starboard to avoid a collision
but finally realized that I was reacting to my own running lights
reflected back off the fog. San Diego harbor is a maze, and was tough to
navigate blind. I was doing fine until I encountered a huge white light
in the middle of the channel. I sat there for 30 minutes trying to
figure it out (note that I'd been single handing for 18 hours through
shipping channels.) I didn't want to use the radio, since CH16 was
flooded with lost power boaters calling the Coast Guard, and the
Coasties were laughing on the radio. ("So, you're tied up to a buoy but
don't know the buoy number? Dawn is only six hours away...") I learned
later that the big white light was illuminating a sign pointing toward a
fuel dock, but with 30 foot visibility I didn't know that and really
didn't want to get close to the big white light. Eventually I worked
past the big white light and ended up in the wrong marina. I saw an
empty slip. I nailed it perfectly. No fenders, no bumps. The next
morning I looked around and realized I had about four inches of
clearance on both sides of the boat. There was a crowd staring at my
boat. I said 'nice to meet you, gotta go...'
Wal
Joe wrote:
Our marina has a 45 foot slip they are renting for $ 1,000 less than the going rate because the pilings are 11 feet apart and no one can fit in there. Well almost no one...........I tried it and I fit:)
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s/v Stella Blue
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