Foggy journey this morning, very foggy

[simonfraser]

From Morgans yard, Brightlingsea to pyefleet:

River not exactly wide by Morgans, could not see both sides at the same time.
Motored out slowly keeping to the starboard side, got past the moorings to port.
Then somehow decided i was past the south cardinal of the river colne and turned south WTF ???
Ran aground on the mud west of point clear, reversed back out.

Now past the cardinal and turned north west towards pyefleet.
Hit the mud to the south !! of Mersea spit.

You obviously think i am a complete numpty and have no sense of direction.
I have done this journey at least 50x in the RIB with good visibility.

Just showed me how disorienting proper dense fog is .....

The wife asked me where the hand held GPS plotter was, at home

Why did i go out, scrub the bottom of the raggy boat at half tide, i did get the job done.
I had plenty of food / petrol / tea so no major danger imo as it was forecast to get sunny, it did.
The big commercial boats only go out at the top of the tide.

 

[omega2]

Fog has a habit of disorientating even with a plotter running and a good compass, plus radar, I still doubt what I am seeing. Horrible stuff, especially in close quarters.

 

[MrB]

Fog has a habit of disorientating even with a plotter running and a good compass, plus radar, I still doubt what I am seeing. Horrible stuff, especially in close quarters.

You have to trust your instruments and what they are telling you in fog and forget your instincts, I guess boating is the same for pilots in IFR flying blind. (Only speaking from a pilots pov)