Sailing in fog in the UK - Blind navigation - weymouth Sailing our sailboat through fog with some tips on how to navigate in fog. we leave weymouth in the fo...

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as well so it's this is pretty much the

last bit so you can do before you all

have to go back to work and all that

kind of stuff obviously we're not gonna

we're still going to be sailing for the

rest of this year just not on this

voyage so today we're just we're going

to be messing around in a code for a bit

just doing a bit of swimming again and

cut aboard nonsense it's north in that

kind of stuff now we've just left the

green this morning there is a bit of sea

fog out here so I just thought I'd share

that with you basically visibility is

roughly around hundred maybe two hundred

meters at the very very most there is a

boat to our port side over there so if

it'll just answer come around there

might be able to see one

upon see it I'll see it well there is

another boat out there so hopefully

that's kind of shows you that you know

there is a boat roughly around 100

meters away just got to keep a bit of a

sharp watch out and bit of a lookout to

see where all the boats on where they

might because we don't have radar a is

as well is basically all based on mobile

devices and all that kind of stuff so

it's not proper a is that's why I call

it so it's got to keep a sharp lookout

and look at the vessels and obviously

you've got to make the right sound

signals if you

in these situations as well

but we will be alright anyway it's not

far to go anyway we're gonna go about 45

minutes gets the scope and then we going

for

hopefully it's not full of other boats

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the key thing with fog is you can get

disorientated quite quickly so you need

to get a fix from there you can use your

speed to work out how much distance

you're traveling and how quickly expect

to get there visibility was down to less

than hundred meters so you need to be

quite accurate in navigation and in the

world of GPS we often forget how to do

things the old-fashioned way now I'm I'm

in the luxury here because I know these

what was quite well but I can't even see

the shoreline which is only a hundred

metres away I also know before I set off

I did a quick course to stare in my head

so if I stick to 87 degrees I'll get to

my destination equally if I can get into

any trouble I can stare back to 270 and

go back to the safety of Weymouth and

more importantly the navigation lights

one thing you can use when you've got

zero visibility is your depth gauge and

there's quite a lot of contours on here

that you can use if you haven't got a

visual fix and these will help you

navigate in such far as this

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so the winds not particularly that

strong this morning running about six

knots coming pretty much directly from

Harvey with sailing means we're roughly

doing around two and a half three knots

so we are going to sail it a minute

the reason for that is it's getting

you'll get close to lunchtime by time

against this Cove and it being a Sunday

there's a lot of people with gin on ice

and champagne on ice you know they don't

want it to get too cold

sorry too warm before they get there so

they'll all be anchoring up before us so

trying to keep a bit speed up to open

together place in there otherwise

they'll be no room at the end we pull of

gin palaces and no no real sailboats so

that's that's why we're noticing it

we'll see when we get there see apple is

so the fog has got a little bit worse

outside we've been imaging through the

pillars by NAR foghorn we've never

really had to use this before because

we've never really been out in Fault

the only time I've ever really sailed in

pop before is if I've ever been learning

sad or doing an eating skipper in that

kind of stuff and all the people boats

where they've got you know where gas

canister an air or two this soft foghorn

meant we've got in those rooms every two

minutes doing the foghorn sounds and

this is what it sounds like

and then every time I flow it took

always on to say Happy New Year speaks

it sounds like what are they little

parties feelings

think we need to invest the proper

footboard

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we did manage to lower him the end we

did sneak in when I mean there's a

closed space looking from the entry

entrance and there is link voting here

but we did find much managed to find a

little spot no cause much chain hours

Mike we've only got like a three to one

scope at a minute because I can't really

play anymore out folks around but we're

not leaving about anyway so I'd like

more taint out versus one of those

things and hopefully the fog lifts in a

bit because system volume in every way

yes a cup winners in a bit and hopefully

we'll be sailing back in nicer weather

the didn't lift and it was with us

all the way back when we got back to

Weymouth we heard about a firework show

that was gonna be on on the beach later

so that's where we headed next

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