Duke
Not to be a jerk here or anything, because I hate when people preach on these discussion boards. I can see you are a licensed skipper, as I am too, but doesn't 32 kts in the fog sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
About ten years ago here on the Cape, a local skipper who I had mated for many times, was run over by another vessel in the fog. He was running a 36' BHM at that time, not exactly a little boat, fishing a rip in the fog with a charter of 6 people on board.
Out of the fog a 45' Hatteras loomed doing 30+ kts and before either skipper could do anything, the Hatteras rammed the BHM and went over it, causing it to sink and tossing its' crew into the water in dense fog. Talk about giving me nightmares.
How more people didn't die, still amazes me to this day.
One customer lost a leg, a second died several days later at a local hospital. The end result was the Hatteras skipper was found responsible for the collision and if memory serves me correctly, faced criminal charges in the death.
I always think about this when I am in the fog, which around here, is all summer. Not everything shows up on radar and at 32 kts, even a target a 1/2 mile out arrives on your bow awfully quick.
Just food for thought, Hooper
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