{"id":304,"date":"2015-12-01T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:08:30","slug":"so-many-apps-so-little-useful-information-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"So many apps – so little useful information sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, \u00a025 November\u00a0

You know the old saying, “there’s an app for that….” Well never is that more true than in sailing. \u00a0There are apps to report the wind, the predicted wind, to determine and some\u00a0that provide tidal information. So with all these apps you would think we would have an upper hand in figuring out what to expect when and be able to effectively plan. \u00a0Our problem is that the apps seem to always contradict each other or even themselves a lot of the time. \u00a0

\"windy<\/a>This morning was supposed to have 10-15 knot winds. \u00a0Thankfully we had\u00a0assistance from the dockhand getting off the dock as we set off with winds that were definitely blowing closer to 25-30, as evidenced by the waves we were pounding into. \u00a0(Not quite captured effectively in this photo.) \u00a0At one point it felt like we were sitting still and not moving. \u00a0But the instruments showed we were moving along at 6 mph, thanks to the current.

Our daily dolphin sightings started early. \u00a0Shortly after we left Dataw Island Marina we spotted a few and they continued as we motored along with a pod of for quite a ways.<\/p>\n

As Bob is focused on finding deeper water and day markers in the water, Christina gets easily distracted with each dolphin sighting, similar to a dog when they see a squirrel. \u00a0

We had planned our departure time to leave the marina near high tide, to transit the one slightly shallow area easily and to arrive at the next marina at slack water so there would be less current to contend with as we maneuvered into the marina. \u00a0\u00a0With the greater tide swings due to the full moon, we didn’t need to worry about the shoaling during high tide as we always seemed to have 9 more feet under the keel than the charted depths. \u00a0

With the strong currents pushing us along we were moving along at over 6 mph even after Bob pulled back the throttle and we approached the marina over an hour earlier than expected, which meant the tide was still going out and we would have to contend with the strong current.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the dock master arranged for us to go into a slip that was straight in from the channel, and therefore we wouldn’t have to maneuver through any fairways or tight situations. \u00a0

The\u00a0dockmaster \u00a0wanted to orient us in a way that would be easiest in and easiest out in the morning of our departure. \u00a0But those two orientations were in different directions.<\/p>\n

It is easier to dock and maneuver when you are heading into the current, and as we were arriving earlier than expected this meant that we arrived before slack water which\u00a0meant that we were heading into the current as we approached, and a bow in orientation was best. \u00a0\u00a0But when we were going to leave on Friday morning the current would be running the opposite way, meaning it would be significantly easier if we would be able to be docked stern in and go straight out of the slip in forward when we departed.<\/p>\n

So after we were safely docked in the slip it was agreed that in an hour or two, when the tide was changing the dockmaster and dock hand would come back and we would back out of the slip and turn around and back in. \u00a0

The dockmaster said they do it all the time with boats and said we didn’t even have to start the engine if we didn’t want to, because they were going to attach a long line to the stern, walk the \u00a0boat back turn it around and walk it back into the slip. \u00a0We didn’t know how this was really going to work with another boat right next tour. \u00a0Bob opted to have the engine running, and assist in the maneuver using the bow thruster as necessary.<\/p>\n

Things did not go totally as planned, and it was a good thing Bob had control of the boat because as they were trying to control the stern to rotate the boat the bowsprit and anchors were becoming close friends with the dinghy on the boat next to us. \u00a0Bob had to use the bow thruster to push us away, which meant the stern was moving even further out of reach for the dockmaster who was losing hold of \u00a0100 feet of dock line attached to the stern.

Eventually Bob got the boat clear and turned around and safely backed into the slip and securely tied. \u00a0(Yeap two dockings within a few hours of each other.) \u00a0We still would like to experience\u00a0how the\u00a0proposed maneuver was supposed to work, but for now we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, \u00a025 November\u00a0You know the old saying, “there’s an app for that….” Well never is that more true than in sailing. \u00a0There are apps to report the wind, the predicted wind, to determine and some\u00a0that provide tidal information. So with all these apps you would think we would have an upper hand in figuring out … Continue reading So many apps – so little useful information sometimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}