[willy]

A tip for you guys without radar but have a GPS.
It was actually an idea of mine that worked, LOL

I went out in the am. with a good buddy and my oldest son about six years ago on the V20 Old School. We were drifting the big channel on the NY side when we looked back to land on the NJ side we saw a giant sheet of white paper, literally nothing could be distinguished at all and it was rolling into us at a speed I could not believe.
Literally went from clear morning to can't see 50 yards in 15 minutes.
The Ambrose Channel is one of the biggest channels in the east for giant cargo ships pretty much non stop all day and night.
I went back nice and calm and made my way to my saved Track and Waypoint that I had done as soon as I got on the water when I put the new GPS in.
I had saved a track back following a contour in about 20 feet of water all the way back to the launch. I idled in and had eagle eye teenage soon standing forward of the windshield with the cuddy top pushed forward. All three of us in life jackets and handed my buddy a long shank heavy screw driver and had him tap the bow rail every thirty seconds or so with a decent sharp rap. Nice chime sound you know.
Had to cross two channels and had waypoints on the edge of each. Paused there looked as best as we could and got across them quick.
It is scary but it worked, the Coast Guard boys were running for a long time answering radio calls for help.
One guy got an assist real abrupt and quick as he drifted to close to the Earl Naval Weapons Pier and got a M60 pointed at his head for his mistake.