On February 12th we awoke to find the harbor shrouded in fog!! Fog is VERY rare in Florida especially in the Keys. It looked like New England! When we do get fog it usually burns off as soon as the sun comes up.
Since we had planned to go sailing that day we went ahead expecting the fog to burn off. When we went out Sister Creek into the ocean the fog was light but we could see a heavy fog bank rolling across the island toward us. So Linda got her first experience sailing in the fog!
We had a nice breeze and were sailing at 4 to 5 knots with visibility varying from a few hundred yards to maybe half a mile. We practiced man-overboard drills with Linda learning to heave to as we passed a crab pot to see how far we ended up from the crap pot (man-overboard) and if it was close enough for me to swim to the boat if I ever fell overboard when Linda was sailing.
I had to admit that the modern electronic navigation equipment (GPS and a chartplotter program on my iPhone) certainly make it less nerve wracking than it used to be when I just had a compass and used dead-reckoning (a wild-ass guess of your location based on your speed, time traveled, current direction and speed, leeway, etc.)
So we had a nice sail despite the fog.
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