Duane, Awesome pictures. Looks like you guys had a perfect day for your crossing. Was the weather as calm on the way home? The ship pictures reminds me of my last crossing to Anacapa. There was a considerable amount of haze and just before we entered the shipping lane, we saw a ship heading towards us in the haze. It was probably only about 3 nm away so we decided to wait as it would probably take only 10-12 minutes to reach us at 15-18 knots and we would not be out of the lane in that amount of time. After waiting 15 minutes and finding the position of the ship hadn't changed much, we finally realized that we were waiting for Oil Platform Gail to reach us. Since it's anchored to the sea floor, I think we'd still be waiting if we hadn't decided to go for it. Just as we exited the separation zone to cross the outbound lane, we had a container ship pass about 200 meters in front of us. Our pictures however, don't compare to yours. Steve Holtzman __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4028 (20090422) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 22 2009 - 09:56:41 PDT
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