And to the dimented few who.....

[iangrant]

left Cherbourg last Friday in the fog. Visibility was less than 50 metres - (including a Moody of the Royal Lymington, but only after a spectacular disregard for radio discipline to a yacht offshore warning of no better conditions).

One hour after they left the fog cleared!

The vis at the time was so bad that we couldn’t see the marina wall!

I trust they frightened themselves (and commercial shipping) accordingly –

I had to laugh. One terrified looking woman on a yacht coming in was seething “that’s it” she spattered “another sailing divorce”

Ian

 

[oldharry]

Oh the joys of GPS. Pity its not as accurate as it seems it ought to be....

 

[Cornishman]

Something else you can learn on an RYA theory course (see which course? post). Late summer and early autumn coastal fog usually burns off in the sun by mid morning!

 

[claymore]

Practical experience of it would be a lesson better remembered I believe!
I am spoken to and I hear
I am shown and I see
I experience and I understand.

regards
Claymore

 

[billmacfarlane]

Trouble is if you leave Cherbourg after it's cleared you might meet it at the English coast when it's getting dark. Just the job to sharpen up the nav skills.

 

[jimi]

And get radar! One reason I purchased mine was 3 days fog bound in Cherbourg last year but knowing the sun was splitting the rocks in the Channel Islands! Would'nt leave not because of navigational problems but collision risk.

Jim