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Re: navigation by soundings.
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2009 Dec 23, 14:00 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2009 Dec 23, 14:00 -0800
Apache Runner wrote: > Interesting point. > > I'd read a whimsical story about soundings with a tallow lead. I wish > I could find it again. It's from The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast by Duncan and Fenn. And you've related it almost exactly. When I lived in New England I loved the book. Because it tried to cover all of New England it was not as detailed as guides to, say, just Penobscot Bay, but it gave local color as well as simply a description of rocks, coves, and marinas. That was my favorite "old sea dogs" story in the book. My second favorite was about some Maine locals who a century ago bought an old church. They needed to relocate it from one coastal town to another nearby town and being practical DownEasters, they lifted the building off its foundations, skidded it onto a barge, and started towing it to its new home. Wouldn't you know it, but when they're a mile or two offshore a fog blew in. So they sent one of their crew up the steeple to ring the church's bell as a fog signal. Suddenly the steam yacht of a rich New Yorker bursts out of the fog and they heard its captain cry "full astern for God's sake, we're about to run aground!!!" -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com