Andy
Beatrix, P19-854
SE Michigan
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From: HTM <htmills@bright.net>
To: West Wight Potterers <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 7:50 PM
Subject: Unidentified subject!
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>I enjoy sailing in Georgian Bay (eastern half of Lake Huron) where
>everything is solid rock. Often the bottom will rise from great depths
>to semi-submerged walls of granite. Navigation is sometimes akin to
>walking a mine field. I was wondering if it would be possible to use
>a fishfinder to "look" forward as well as down....so that I could know
>when I was approaching one of these boat-stoppers. Something that
>only looks down doesn't allow enough reaction time. If the trans-
>whatchamacallit were tilted forward and were up closer to the bow
>(perhaps at the front of the keel) maybe it would give me <a little> time
>to react.
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>Any thoughts on the matter?
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>Tod Mills
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