over the nee, you obviously have no idea how RDF works.

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If you didn't trust the charts, why?,

oh, I dunno. good seamanship maybe? An understanding of how charts were
produced? Maybe just making sure the lights were working that night?

and why were you running that
close if this was the case?

because we could see the lights, and they appeared where we expected them too.
When one didn't appear as expected we became extremely watchful, and were ready
to turn around if it didn't appear very shortly. It appeared.

Sounds like some bad decision making when
doing your route planning.


I didn't plan the route. The career merchant marine with a couple decades
offshore racing experience did. He was trying to skirt inside the Gulf Stream
so we didn't have to cross it and then recross it sometime later. If the light
hadn't appeared we were within a few seconds of turning around. so, what's the
problem?