on the high mountain lake where i sail the wind pretty reliably turns up between noon and 1pm. yesterday was rated as a 30% rain chance but i hadn't been out on the cat for quite some time and wanted to try out a new mount position on the main beam for my new pentax optio w60 waterproof, interval shooting camera

luckily i had sailed upwind from launch but was on the other side of the lake when the low clouds suddenly dropped down to the water and visibility dropped to 20-50 yards

i've normally a pretty good sense of direction but after a couple of downwind gybes to get back to my launch beach my sense of direction was in disagreement with what the wind said

no gps that day but a quick glance at the sky showed the brightest bit to be where the wind said north should be, and then i remembered there was also an electronic compass built into my casio g-shock phone, which also confirmed i was headed in the right direction and that my "gut" feeling was wrong. funny how sailing/skiing/flying inside a ping pong ball does that to you

biggest worry was the huge catamaran ferry that takes tourists around the lake, they probably shouldn't operate in the fog but as their schedule is tied into tour buses and nobody wants to give refunds they continue to sail in pretty much anything

didn't want that to suddenly come out of the murk on a collision course, wonder if they have radar and if my mast would have given a good enough return...

after sometime sailing in complete white the concrete docks and diving tower of a swimming area appeared and i quickly tacked off to my nearby beach

how do the rest of you handle fog?

attached pic if from when i decided to stop going upwind on the wire and start going downwind on the tramp