Article: WHAT NOW?(safety measures while boating and thunderstorms, fog or storms occur)

Nobody plans on getting caught out on the water in bad weather, but it happens to everyone. Here's how to survive three common weather emergencies

Thunderstorms

We has been more than three days at sea and had miles of ocean. We'd crossed the Atlantic faster than the liner S.S. United States, the record holder, and now had to make a landfall at the finish line, Bishop Rock Lighthouse on the southwest coast of England off Cornwall. Because this event took place before the days of GPS, I was relying on a Decca Navigator (the European equivalent of loran) to fix our position. At 15 miles out, I was glued to the radar, looking for the first signs of land. ...

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