Fighting Fog
We’ve all seen it: A dark shape emerging from the all-encompassing whiteness, to grow and morph into a trideck motoryacht or even a coastwise freighter under a good head of steam, skipping by much too closely for comfort. “He saw us, right?” someone invariably says, as the big boat disappears as quickly as it emerged, while someone else stares even more intently at the helm, maybe tweaking the knobs of some pre-touchscreen unit that’s placing your boat and crew way out of its depth, and, some would say, in harm’s way.
No matter where you do your boating, whether you’re crossing offshore shipping lanes when encountering a fog bank or threading your way through a busy harbor, you don’t want to depend on the other guy to see you and fix the problem. You need to fix
