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1400 foot container ship in the fog!!!!!
 This is what a 1400 foot Mersk ship looks like 150 yards off the stern of the boat. The picture does the situation no justice!!!! There was about a 200 yard visibility. Fog horns make an Erie noise!!! I took this picture after getting directly off his bow!!!!  Shot number 2 is way close for comfort. 
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01-12-2013, 11:26 AM
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- The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. Lucky Jack - .......The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine seaboat: weatherly, stiff and fast, very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime. 85' Wellcraft 20 Fisherman "Guale Girl" 1979 Alumnacraft 14 - STILL got holes in it 2006 WS Tarpon160f - "Mudd Butt"
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01-12-2013, 11:32 AM
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as you can see in the first shot that Stretch 25 was reeled in really really fast. The lure actually popped out of the water and almost hit me in the face!! lol!!! We heard him blowing his fog horn but its safer to standby and get visual before you move. Alot of guys make the mistake of trying to move with no visual and almost running up on him. The deck looked like florocarbon spaggetti after we reeled in the lines. lol!
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01-12-2013, 12:28 PM
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In a word..... RADAR!
You never need it until that one time... then it saves your life. Where RW, Willy and I fish (Sandy Hook area) we have ships that size coming and going all the time from Port Elizabeth, Port Newark and all the ports on the Hudson river. Being out in a fog like that, in that area, without radar is simply suicide. Glad you avoided him. That guys screws would have chewed you and your boat up into little pieces in less time than it takes to type this.
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01-12-2013, 12:35 PM
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we have our JRC as shown in pic. she decided not to fire up today. Yea we are fishing the mouth of the chesapeake bay shes very busy in there also. this ship steamed out of the southeast sea lane in a hurry.
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01-12-2013, 01:14 PM
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I was running a boat(28 Sea Ray) on a sunny day, inside Charleston harbor. We were headed up the Wando river and i got it figured out, so i turn the boat around, only to be greeted by a fog bank that rolled in> i could see the top of the old bridges, but nothing below. I brought the boat off plane and started listening. I could hear a fog horn going off when suddenly out of the fog was the bow of a container ship, I ran 90 off of his course till I was in shallow water, then came about 90 again and creeped along till I could see the base of the bridges. Once I knew where I was, I idled under the bridges(staying out of the channel, but in deep enough water), kept going to i could see the Yorktown, ran parallel to it till I got the entrance to teh marina. The owner of the boat was with me and he was freaking out the whole time, I was a bit nervous my self, but I kept it close and never let on. Once we got the boat tied up and put away, he was asking me how i knew what to do and how to handle it, some how telling him I pulled it out of my *** wasn't going to sound very professional, so i told him I took the power squadron safety course and told him where to sign up and learn more. Sounded good anyways!
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01-12-2013, 02:54 PM
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[QUOTE=Kracker Jack;199059] We heard him blowing his fog horn but its safer to standby and get visual before you move. Alot of guys make the mistake of trying to move with no visual and almost running up on him. QUOTE]
Thats about the best thing you can do...... Radar would be great....if it were cheap, in the meantime I gotta use the radar god gave me(eyes and ears)
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- The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. Lucky Jack - .......The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine seaboat: weatherly, stiff and fast, very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime. 85' Wellcraft 20 Fisherman "Guale Girl" 1979 Alumnacraft 14 - STILL got holes in it 2006 WS Tarpon160f - "Mudd Butt"
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