Fog in the Channel

[LadyInBed]

Left Cherbourg at 0600, along with another Brit boat heading for Yarmouth. Viz 500 Mtrs, the best it got was about a mile until we got to about 2Nm off Old Harry where it cleared. Picked up a buoy for the night off PYC. Time for dinner

 

[sailor211]

Young Spooks called it. A peasouper in the Solent but his photo looked about a mile.
Have a good meal and a few zzzzzzz's

 

[Blueboatman]

You done good. I would say the vis early wednesday morning was less than that further east.
Weird sailing along in a nice sw3 inshore , the full moon appearing then disappearing and hearing but not seeing groups of gulls chatting all around on the water..
First time I have then really really used the radar to ' find ' a training wall and tidal entrance projecting off a long beach.. Silent engineless approach , to ' hear' as well...every little helps but when you're down to 5m under the keel and nowt visible , nice to know the plotter and second gps datums won't, definitely won't, really really won't, take you past the breakwaters by a few metres and up onto the sands...

 

[Sybarite]

Left Cherbourg at 0600, along with another Brit boat heading for Yarmouth. Viz 500 Mtrs, the best it got was about a mile until we got to about 2Nm off Old Harry where it cleared. Picked up a buoy for the night off PYC. Time for dinner

Picture a dark night, thick fog and crossing the traffic lanes off Ushant without radar, hearing ships but not seeing them. Our last crossing.

 

[josephmoore]

There was an amazing haze here in Ventnor yesterday evening - clear down at street level, and bright sunlight, but you couldn't see the top of the spire on the church at the end of my road or St Boniface down. I love it how the fog does crazy things sometimes; probably wouldn't if I was out in the channel, though!

 

[timmygobang]

Good to be back ay!

Did Calais to Dover last year in pea soup with no AIS on a friends boat, was like crossing a busy road with your eyes closed

 

[colhel]

Left Cherbourg at 0600, along with another Brit boat heading for Yarmouth. Viz 500 Mtrs, the best it got was about a mile until we got to about 2Nm off Old Harry where it cleared. Picked up a buoy for the night off PYC. Time for dinner

Must have been thick if you were aiming for Yarmouth but ended up in Poole harbour