Along with the engineering courses I'm taking at SMA, Dorothy has been taking courses in the "deck" program and this quarter it is Electronic Navigation. She and I were talking about her class and out of that discussion came a story I'd like to share with you. I wrote about this at the time it occurred, but that was in the prior blog, which AOL discontinued without notice, leading to our starting this blog in late 07.

In early 07, living aboard DE in Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter, Hong Kong, we left the moorage on the south side of HK island to transit out the Lamma Channel, then around the east end of the island and up the east side of the Kowloon Peninsula to Clearwater Bay to have DE hauled out and the anti-fouling re-newed before heading across the South China Sea to Subic Bay PI.

It was pretty foggy in the channel with no more than half a mile visibility ahead, and we had the AIS receiver activated showing us big boat traffic in the Lamma Channel overlaid on our chart plotter. We noted a ship marker headed towards us from the SE (gray arrowhead, outlined in red, in the photo above). DE is a black boat shape with a blue arrow extending ahead; the yellow arrow perpendicular to DE shows the wind vector.