Hi All,
Joe wrote about his trip last summer and he and Debbie's "fun" with mechanical
problems and breakdowns in a remote area. We were there at Neah Bay
with them for awhile when all this was going on, so have followed their story
with interest.
With the latest thread about "E-cruising" in mind, here's what Joe
modestly didn't relate. They crossed two of the toughest bars on the
Pacific coast that trip. One at night in pitch black conditions.
They used their electronic charts with all the neat goodies to cross
an unfamiliar place, the Grey's Harbor bar, into Westport and to find
their way right into a slip. Wow! Neat.
Joes relating of that cruise to me last fall, made me think that we would
have had a much tougher time plotting a course, checking the input to the
DGPS, re-checking input, relying heavily on radar, and then running the
bar with only my paper charts, although it's been done this way for ages.
Things just keep improving in our navigation world.
I may have chose to lay off the coast until daylight without an
instant electronic double comparison check of the displays
(radar and E-chart) like they have, while running that particular bar at night.
Things happen real, real fast under those conditions.
So we're saving our "trawler piggy bank" money for a system like
theirs.
Sandy and Dawna Floe
Sea Eagle (39 CHB)
Day Island, WA
Joe wrote:
<big snip>
We fix heat exchanger (takes an hour) and head out into
the Pacific, Southbound for the Columbia River and Astoria. Very rough
trip, just the two us to work the boat. It takes us about 14 hours most of
which feels like we're inside a washing machine. We don't make the Columbia
but arrive at Westport in pitch dark about 10:00 PM. Find our way to
Westport transient dock, collapse into bunks. Next morning back out into
Pacific for last leg to Astoria. Arrive about 2:00 PM. Tie up and
immediately sleep all afternoon. It's now Friday. Not much point in
pushing back up the Columbia to arrive Friday night. Too late to go to
work. At least we have phone service. Leisurely trip back during the
weekend.
Wow, what a great summer!
Hi All,
Joe wrote about his trip last summer and he and Debbie's "fun" with mechanical
problems and breakdowns in a remote area. We were there at Neah Bay
with them for awhile when all this was going on, so have followed their story
with interest.
With the latest thread about "E-cruising" in mind, here's what Joe
modestly didn't relate. They crossed two of the toughest bars on the
Pacific coast that trip. One at night in pitch black conditions.
They used their electronic charts with all the neat goodies to cross
an unfamiliar place, the Grey's Harbor bar, into Westport and to find
their way right into a slip. Wow! Neat.
Joes relating of that cruise to me last fall, made me think that we would
have had a much tougher time plotting a course, checking the input to the
DGPS, re-checking input, relying heavily on radar, and then running the
bar with only my paper charts, although it's been done this way for ages.
Things just keep improving in our navigation world.
I may have chose to lay off the coast until daylight without an
instant electronic double comparison check of the displays
(radar and E-chart) like they have, while running that particular bar at night.
Things happen real, real fast under those conditions.
So we're saving our "trawler piggy bank" money for a system like
theirs.
Sandy and Dawna Floe
Sea Eagle (39 CHB)
Day Island, WA
Joe wrote:
<big snip>
We fix heat exchanger (takes an hour) and head out into
> the Pacific, Southbound for the Columbia River and Astoria. Very rough
> trip, just the two us to work the boat. It takes us about 14 hours most of
> which feels like we're inside a washing machine. We don't make the Columbia
> but arrive at Westport in pitch dark about 10:00 PM. Find our way to
> Westport transient dock, collapse into bunks. Next morning back out into
> Pacific for last leg to Astoria. Arrive about 2:00 PM. Tie up and
> immediately sleep all afternoon. It's now Friday. Not much point in
> pushing back up the Columbia to arrive Friday night. Too late to go to
> work. At least we have phone service. Leisurely trip back during the
> weekend.
> Wow, what a great summer!
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