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Navigational Perplexity

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Bill McLean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVTA2xk7m7U

One challenge of sailing out of Norfolk Harbor, besides merchants, carriers, subs, etc. are helicopters. This one is pulling a mine sweep and followed me out of the channel then I took a right and eventually got out of the harbor and could tack away. The helo is a CH-53 the largest helicopter in the free world- as we used to say in my Navy days. It's a big as a bus.

Who has the right of way? They do!

BTW no mines were found.
 

toddster

Curator of Broken Parts
Blogs Author
Some years back, I was trying to sail my Hobie cat out of a lagoon with a zigzag channel on a light-wind day. Lot's of tacking to make little progress. Every time I got close to the escaping to the main river, an Erickson Skycrane would drop out of the sky in front of me and dip a big snorkel into the lagoon to suck up water for a nearby forest fire. My little thistle-seed of a boat would get blown all the way back across. After two or three go-rounds, I figured I'd never get out of there while staying clear of the helo, and just packed it in for the day.
 
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