A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough.For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows.A Landfall may be good or bad.You encompass the earth with one particular spot of it in your eye.In all the devious tracings the course of a sailing-ship leaves upon the white paper of a chart she is always aiming for that one little spot - maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, a lighthouse on a bluff, or simply the peaked form of a mountain like an ant-heap afloat upon the waters.But if you have sighted it on the expected bearing, then that Landfall is good.
Fogs, snowstorms, gales thick with clouds and rain - those are the enemies of good Landfalls.