5:00 am, lying awake and hearing Curt snooze I decided to check how things were outside. To my surprise the stars were gone and we were in heavy fog. Curt heard me say we're in fog, got up, checked to see if we were on course. During the night we were pounding on the bow and he switched our course to the East for a little ways till wind went down or out of the wind, then south east again. More of a comfortable trip for both of us. Glad I had the Zofran to keep my stomach more calm. Curt was fine all night.
Maneuvered our way in the fog thru the markers and crab pots. So glad to see the crab pot ball, knowing we were within 20 miles of land or less but more concerned of staying out of the shallows and in the channel of 6-8 ft of water. Don't want to go aground in dense fog.12:45pm After close watch on both sides to stay out of the crab pots and
stay in deeper water we came out of the fog bank. Navigated across a
small body of water to the markers for the channel into Tarpon Springs
and went into another fog bank. We ghosted in the fog seeing the
markers about 10 ft away in the channel, heard a motor racing in the fog,
slowed down to idle speed and in the fog waiting for the boat to come
racing out at us. Got out the fog horn, ready to blow it, then came out
of the fog after zig-zagging around from marker to marker thru the
shoals. Saw two boats coming flying at us, with one foot of water close on starboard and port side, they split and went around us.
Sun up sky and water the same color Raimiti is the Polynesian Term for this, once again we see it, just happened to be reading an article in one of the sailing magazines about it.
Know were close with the turquoise water, yeah
Fog is lighter in some places and then heavier like below
Crab pot ball about 15 ft off our starboard, took 15 secs for it to disappear behind us in the fog
They were on both sides of us and occ. in front of us
Really is disorienting when you can see very far, had to take the boat off Autopilot and really had no clue which way to go to get back on course except for the GPS and compass. Didn't take long to get off course and took a while to get back on course.
It opened up but below we see the another thick fog bank coming towards us, with the tower's of Tarpon above it.
Finally coming into the channel and out of the second fog bank
Looking back without regrets, pretty proud of ourselves for ghosting in with the handheld GPS only to guidance
neat boat on the way in
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