Guess what? It's 240 km across Bass Strait. Nobody considers that's
offshore sailing. People kayak across.

PDW

In article , Jeff Morris
wrote:

"Donal" wrote

"Jeff Morris" wrote
Donal complains about your geography, but he considers the Portsmouth
Harbour entrance, which is about 8 miles up the Solent, to be "offshore."

You are hallucinating, Jeff.

What on Earth makes you say that I think that Portsmouth Harbour entrance is
"offshore"?

I really think that you should consider withdrawing that silly remark.


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What are you going to do, turn me in to the "out of
context cops"???

OK, if you insist, let's review:

Peter said:

Keep in mind that if Donal tried to go 30 miles offshore,
he'd hit France.

And you responded:

Idiot!!!
The last person who made that dumb mistake was Jax!!!!!
Stick to English literature. You know nothing about geography.
Cherebourg is my nearest French port, and it is 74 nautical
miles from Portsmouth Harbour entrance.

It sure seems to me that you were trying to claim that the measuring of
"offshore" begins at your harbor entrance. Otherwise, why would you mention
that point as opposed to any other point along the way? If not, you might
have
said Cherbourg is 56 miles off from St. Catherine's, your actual point of
departure from the British coast. Actually, most measures of "offshore"
start a
ways out, perhaps 12 miles. But that starts looking pretty close to Peter's
claim - not bad for someone 12,000 miles away.

But you wanted to play the pompous ass, so you had to use the larger measure.
And being greedy, you picked the furthest distance and got burned. Sorry
Donal - you got just what you deserve. I'll bet your petard is pretty sore
right now!

-jeff
"As ye butter your bread, so shall ye lie in it."