jeffies, jeffies, jeffies. you are acting as a petulant little boy wearing
short pants and riding training wheels.

of course I wasn't navigating. The career merchant marine with the decades of
offshore racing was navigating. It was his boat. duh.

And I was most certainly on watch. In fact, because my night eye sight was
better than the owner's whose was much better than the other crew, the
owner/merchant marine/ocean racer asked me to help in spotting the lights. And
as I said, at one point we were within 20 seconds of turning around before I
spotted the light (barely), the owner spotting the light about 10 seconds later
(barely for him, surely for me).

what's to be scared of at Hatteras in a flat calm. The owner/merchant
marine/ocean racer had been taking november mike weather forecasts twice a day
since before the trip started, and had the charts onboard to make a run to any
potentially needed port of refuge. I, for my own interest, had been watching
any developing lows off West Africa for more than a week before we set off.
There was nothing of concern at all off Africa when we left, which meant -- at
the worse -- we still had a minium of 10 days without the potential of a
hurricane developing (it was August, after all, and thus hurricanes were a
potential).

geesh, jeffies, just admit you motor training wheels and be done with it. Why
in hell do you keep wanting to argue that the Gulf Stream doesn't have eddies,
and that Hatteras doesn't have lights to avoid off its end? no way in hell are
you going to take your vessel out there.

Those may be "tings ta hits" but they are not rocks. The only reason someone
would claim there are rocks there is if they never were there at all. Of
course, its also possible you were hiding down below, scared ****less at the
thought of passing Hatteras. Or maybe you were hanging over the side. One
thing is for sure, you weren't navigating!




"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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see those markers and lights out there jeffie? dems tings ta hits.