I've been "out there" many times, jaxie, but I've never been lost like you were.
What you describe is the anxiety of navigating inshore amongst the rocks of the
Maine Coast, in the fog, before the days of Loran and Radar. Where you were,
with 3 GPS's and Loran, you should have had no doubt at all, and you shouldn't
have been within 5 miles of a hazard.



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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no jeffies, it did not mean we were withing 100 feet of hitting something. It
meant we hadn't yet seen a light we expected to see, and if we didn't see it
****soon**** we would do the prudent thing and backtrack until we were sure
the light was out or something. we found the light right where it was
expected.

go out there sometime jeffies and you will find out that one does indeed watch
for lights. training wheels motorboat operators, on the other hand, motor a
bit and stop, motor a bit and stop, stay stopped because it might rain or the
bread is stale or whatever.

Right. You said "we were within 20 seconds of turning around". That sounds
an
awful lot like you were lost. Especially since you can go 5 miles inside of
a
light with 38 mile visibility. At 3 knots, that means you were afraid you
were
within 100 feet of bumping into a "rock." Given that there are no hazards,
other than Diamond Shoals, which is very well marked and easy to avoid, its
sounds a lot like you were lost.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies, the only one to use the word "lost" is you.

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