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Re: Wind & Current Navigation
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Apr 16, 22:02 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Apr 16, 22:02 -0700
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
