"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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you still haven't told us what buoy you were looking for
then

it was a light, at night.

You keep saying that, but you still haven't told us which light. The prinmary
light, Diamond Shoals, has a nominal range of 18 miles. Are you claiming your
GPS was so far off you couldn't find that?

Frankly, I can remember virtually every major landmark I've passed in the last 5
years or so - I'll admit that I don't remember everything from 40 years ago.
But I have a log entry for every day I've sailed in the last 15 years or so.
Certainly I would remember which light was so elusive as to cause such a radical
solution!


if we didn't find that light we were going to do the
prudent thing and turn around, go back from where we came,

Where did you come from? New York?

turn east, travel
well away from Hatteras and hope we didn't hit the Gulf Stream that would take
us back north, and then resume going south.

jeffies, we were trying to go between the Gulf Stream and Hatteras, and that
was a tight squeeze that day.

Obviously it was too tight for you. You can go more than 5 miles inside of
Diamond Shoals light. In fact, you could navigate it safely just using
soundings. Its pretty clear you had no idea what was going on, and you still
haven't looked at a chart to figure it out. It sound like you were down below
soiling yourself, while the adults were goofing on you!



you, jeffies, would have done what?

I don't know - I've never been so badly lost that I couldn't find an 18 mile
light on a clear night, with a GPS.