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Sounds a lot like you're making this all up, though the possibility you were
changing your pants is looking stronger.

You had two GPS's on board and you were lost?

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Jax is referring to Diamond Shoals which are easily avoided in good weather
by
going outside of the lighthouse. There are no rocks in the area.

two things. a.) the markers are there to mark things you can hit, and b.) I
remember many, many more lights for two or three or four or more hours while
we
were going through at night. I remember at one point we were within 20
seconds
of turning around because we couldn't see the next light, when I saw it,
followed by maybe 10 seconds later by the owner, who was a career merchant
marine and had a couple decades racing offshore.

jeffies, if you don't think there weren't things to hit and break up a boat
there, certainly the owner of the boat did. And avoiding the Gulf Stream to
the east was the reason we were in so close.

jeffies, guys in training wheels don't normally even think of rounding
Hatteras, predictions of a flat calm or not.

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.

Those may be "tings ta hits" but they are not rocks.

and the lights are there for what reason?

You had two GPS's on board and you were lost?

actually, we had three, and a LORAN and a fine, fine sextant with tables and
chronometer and radio for time ticks.

we weren't lost, and nobody but you has said we were.

and why, jeffies, to *you* keep talking about dirty pants when discussing being
on the ocean at night in a flat calm?

the possibility you were
changing your pants is looking stronger.

Labomba182 (aka Capt Bill) posting as BB wrote:

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Date: 2/29/2004 11:23 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

wrote in message
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On 28 Feb 2004 22:04:26 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

bb, check the header. note the missing "h".

You need to check some headers yourself. That wasn't me.

YES IT WAS.

BB (JAX IS SO STEW PID)

Are you really so stupid as to claim that the only reason for aids to navigation
is to mark rocks that could be hit by a small boat? Is "Soft As Puppy ****"
your middle name?

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Those may be "tings ta hits" but they are not rocks.

and the lights are there for what reason?

And your acting like your making it all up.

Lost at Hatteras with two GPS's! Good one jaxie!

jeffies, jeffies, jeffies. I am picturing you as a petulant little boy
wearing short pants and riding training wheels and it makes me so
horny.

JAX