And the fog lifted
Posted: December 30th, 2007, 10:22 am
Spent Saturday at Shell Point with some friends of ours.
They have a nice place on one of the canals.
They have an even nicer 22' Century Bay boat.
Sitting in the living room watching the thick then thicker fog roll in off the bay,we were talking GPS. Floyd wasn't sure if it should be trusted or not for navigation.
I told him there is only one way to find out.
Get the boat off the lift and lets go.
As we rounded the point at the SP channel we immediately had to rely on the GPS. You could not see the houses on the beach from 50' away. We zoomed in on the scale to pick up the BlueChart channel markers. We ran these down SP beach to the Oyster Bay channel, then out on the flats towards Piney Island. When we got near Smith Island the fog lifted briefly to expose 8 boats fishing the Smith Island bars.
We took advantage of this clearing to show Floyd a couple redfish holes to mark on his GPS. No sooner were they marked the fog re-established itself.
The GPS TEST: We then turned and went offshore to the end of the Long Bar a couple miles south of Piney Island. From there we used the map and cursor to locate the SP tripod and hit Nav/Enter. When we passed the tripod it was 20' to starboard.
That is when Floyd decided he could trust his GPS.
They have a nice place on one of the canals.
They have an even nicer 22' Century Bay boat.
Sitting in the living room watching the thick then thicker fog roll in off the bay,we were talking GPS. Floyd wasn't sure if it should be trusted or not for navigation.
I told him there is only one way to find out.
Get the boat off the lift and lets go.
As we rounded the point at the SP channel we immediately had to rely on the GPS. You could not see the houses on the beach from 50' away. We zoomed in on the scale to pick up the BlueChart channel markers. We ran these down SP beach to the Oyster Bay channel, then out on the flats towards Piney Island. When we got near Smith Island the fog lifted briefly to expose 8 boats fishing the Smith Island bars.
We took advantage of this clearing to show Floyd a couple redfish holes to mark on his GPS. No sooner were they marked the fog re-established itself.
The GPS TEST: We then turned and went offshore to the end of the Long Bar a couple miles south of Piney Island. From there we used the map and cursor to locate the SP tripod and hit Nav/Enter. When we passed the tripod it was 20' to starboard.
That is when Floyd decided he could trust his GPS.
