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Subject: Re: Wind & Current Navigation
From: Dan Allen (danallen46@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 01:02:06 EDT
On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 08:26 PM, Fred Hebard wrote:
> I can nervously envision that sinking feeling as you were set in
> towards that pier with very little you could do to get yourself away.
It is a terrible feeling indeed.
> Perhaps throwing a bit of chaff into the water in the future would be
> enlightening, or looking at the water swirl around an anchor chain or
> some such. The orientation of free-swinging boats at anchor relative
> to wind direction might also be helpful.
Good ideas. In my marina, however, there are nothing but slips: no
anchor chains are visible at all, as there is a wind wall preventing
any visibility outside of the marina! This is ironic since today the
wind was not the problem.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Dan
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