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• First time I crashed into a dock on purpose.
  • Did you damage your boat?
  • Shucks we could have watched on the
  • The currents in the Charleston area are legendary.
  • Good lesson on what NOT to do..
    • Yes, it was a great learning experience
      • ActiveCaptain uses Flash and doesn't work with iPad/iPhone browser
        • IPAD App for Active Captain...
          • Agree, Navimatics on an IPad provides Active Captain
            • A $40 .00 investment?
              • Yes it's free on the web
              • The advantage of Active Captain is that it is "crowd sourced" data
        • I've been using a program called 'Photon' for Flash.
    • have to really agree with point 2...
      • And point 5
        • It was the Admiral at the bow calling.
  • I've been to the same dock and I feel your pain. It ain't an easy landing.
    • I too, have seen some 'unpleasantness' there
      • LOL!! If a bad landing ended a trip south, my guess it wasn't the landing... it was the take-off.
        • Only a symptom of bigger issues for sure
  • I forget how tricky currents become down south
    • We're from California and don't have currents (no excuse)
      • San Diego has some current... recent event at Police Dock
      • Been to San Francisco?
        • But that's the other California.
  • Geez, I thought you SoCal dumbasses kept your Marina del Rey Racing Stripes permanently deployed, no...? (grin)
  • "Use the Force, Luke"