you still haven't told us what buoy you were looking for
then

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

you, jeffies, would have done what?