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Roger Long Roger Long is offline
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Default Larry, this one's for you.

"Richard Casady" wrote

What is it about warning bouys that makes prople snuggle up to them.


I never heard of or observed such a tendency. This wasn't a buoy but a
large dock clearly intended to accomodate large supply vessels so there
wasn't any navigational concern with less than 5 feet of draft. 300 feet is
just the DOD's idea of security. If they were really serious about it, they
would put out those yellow buoys that are starting to appear in some places.
The towers go right up to the edge of a working harbor on the other side so
keeping people at a distance is kind of pointless.

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Roger Long