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Dave5041
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Initially Posted - 02/03/2010 :  16:43:28  Show Profile
Outbound from Destin Harbor, I went under the bridge to head for Choctowhatchee Bay, It slipped my mind that I was now inbound - a lot of shallow water for the first few miles. Soft grounding times one reminded me - the sounder near the bow was in 6 ft. of water, but the keel wasn't. Raised the keel and backed out and sure enough, the sounder bounced across 3.5 ft. as I retraced my path. Soft grounding # 2 searching my way back to the channel with the keel 1/2 retracted - same process. The breeze was a little light, but 1 ft waves, bright sun, dolphins, cormorants, and a couple of loons filled in my day. I would hate to think of a life without sailing.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 02/03/2010 :  16:50:30  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Dave,
On our depth sounder, you can program in an offset to account for your keel, maybe you can do the same? That said, I've never bothered, but I want to, it's just not that big of an issue for us (famous last words I'm sure).

Sun, dolphins, & birds sounds like a nice way to spend a day.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 02/03/2010 :  19:58:51  Show Profile
I had an offset programed for a while, but Chris, the Admiral, knows our draft prefers to know the actual depth.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 02/03/2010 :  19:58:56  Show Profile
I've got my depth sounder set for a 4.5 offset, so even though it gets really scary watching the depth go down to the 5 ft and 4 ft levels in tight estuaries and bays, I know I still have a bit of margin. Quite often what happens to scare the be-jeepers outta me is the meter will read 8, 7, 5, and then it will go to -- -- -- on the screen.

This drives me mad! What apparently is happening is that the bottom is so soft and amorphous, that the sonar cannot pick up a valid reflection off the bottom, so it just throws up its hands.

That's when I stop and wait for a much larger sail boat to follow along behind of into or out of the harbor. I only hope they have a fixed keel that's deeper than mine!

I could really really really use some warm weather sailing right about now! . . .
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glen
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Response Posted - 02/04/2010 :  07:12:40  Show Profile
I have used our swing keel set to 50% to lead a fleet of 30 footers into a harbor. They refer to it as Glen’s feeler gauge
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 02/04/2010 :  07:51:43  Show Profile
One of the prettiest places I have spent the night is inside Destin Harbor. We beached the boat on a narrow sand spit across the harbor from Destin. There were small dunes, sea oats, and pure, white sand. It was a beautiful setting, with a sunset befitting it. I hope it hasn't been replaced by commercial development.

I bought my C25 new in 1981 at a Ft. Walton Beach Catalina dealer called "The Boat," and sailed it in the area before towing it home to Ohio.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 02/04/2010 :  09:28:10  Show Profile
While just about everything else around Destin is developed, that little sand spit and the dunes are now a beautiful state park left in it's natural state. Destin is far to developed and crowded to appeal to us in the summer, but it is a pretty pleasant winter destination. We have usually gone to the Pensacola Beach area in the winter and Navarre Beach in the summer; the two towns are separated by 12 miles of undeveloped Gulf Island National Seashore with the gulf on the south and Santa Rosa Sound on the north. The Boat marina is still in Ft. Walton.
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