Just wanted to post this to try and stop what happened to me today.  I was launching early in the morning and it was foggy so i idles till the fog cleared.  I got upto about 50 or so and saw a small fog patch and was like ill keep speed and pass through it quickly.  Dont do this, just slow back to an idle!  a pontoon boat with no lights was in the fog and i didnt see him till i was literly 20 feet directly behind it heading right at it.  I swerved thanks to my partner yelling and barly missed it.  Just trying to help others learn from my mistake so no body will die making the same mistake.  I got very lucky.

Thanks for the tip. Good thing you swerved in time.

I bet your adrenaline was pumping after that. 

On a better note, how was the fishing?

i couldnt fish for the next hour because of how truamatized i was.  It really scared me bad though because the way the fog was coming over the console i never saw the boat till we passed.  my partner yelled and i just reacted.

Wow, that could have been really bad!  Glad you swerved.  My partner was teaching me to use your GPS for navigation when there is limited visibility on the lake...........this wont help much with another boat in your path.

well that was half of the probablem, i was using the gps to navigate the creek.

Another lesson to be learned here is to not park your boat in a running lane when it's foggy or at night. Get over to the side until the fog burns off. Geez.

ya and an even better lesson for him is have a 360 degree light on his boat.  I would have easily seen him if he had that.