"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ...

How wide is the inlet he was trying to navigate?

Outbound, once I get a little ways east of the beach, I'll stay within
150' of the N jetty, paralleling it, until I clear the jetty tip.
Then, I'll break immediately to the northeast. Reverse procedure for
inbound.

That inlet has baffled the CoE for so long it is really embarassing.
They dredge and dredge, they built weirs, which they then decided to
replace w/a big, long north jetty. $23mil later and still 9/10's of
the south side is unusable (shoals, sandbars, rough, ect).

The whole damn place gets wild as Hell w/a outgoing tide bucking a
stiff onshore breeze. (However, this was not the situation the night
Captain Crash's "voyage" prematurely ended)

Now they're talking about a big, long south jetty. yawn

I have suggested to the Corp that given their "track record", perhaps
people should send in their suggestions, we'll put them all on a big
dart board, blindfold some of the engineering staff and let'em throw
the darts at it.

The suggestion with the most "hits" is the way we go.

Couldn't be any more ineffective.

And, what's the margin of error for GPS nowadays?

Ponce Inlet is not the place to be needing a GPS.

Just ask it's most recent victim, "Captain" Roberts, formerly of the
vessel "Baroness".
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SJM