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The furthest I have ever seen lights off shore Miami from about 50
miles and I thought that was impressive!

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Nice thought to pass on - you're right!

sorry about your friend

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Da Kine wrote:
The furthest I have ever seen lights off shore Miami from about 50
miles and I thought that was impressive!



This was just outside the entrance to Bimini?

There isn't much in the way of big city lights in eastern
NC. We have been anchored out, watching the evening sky, and
seen the glow from Belhaven & Elizabeth City. All is relative.

Years ago (OK it was decades) I sailed into the mouth of the
Chesapeake navigating by the loom of Norfolk (this was
before GPS). We could see the glow from about 20 miles out,
as we sailed closer we saw an odd pattern of moving lights
that appeared in the middle of the ocean and darted along
horizontally in an erratic way. Turned out to be cars on the
Bridge-Tunnel.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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DSK wrote:
Da Kine wrote:

The furthest I have ever seen lights off shore Miami from about 50
miles and I thought that was impressive!



This was just outside the entrance to Bimini?

There isn't much in the way of big city lights in eastern NC. We have
been anchored out, watching the evening sky, and seen the glow from
Belhaven & Elizabeth City. All is relative.

Years ago (OK it was decades) I sailed into the mouth of the Chesapeake
navigating by the loom of Norfolk (this was before GPS). We could see
the glow from about 20 miles out, as we sailed closer we saw an odd
pattern of moving lights that appeared in the middle of the ocean and
darted along horizontally in an erratic way. Turned out to be cars on
the Bridge-Tunnel.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

We were on that just today...frove out to Cape Chrales...noticed
that the whole bridge is lot at night. Good thing, too...would be a
heck of a mess if a container ship or aircraft carrier drove through
it! We stopped in the middle and saw some ships south of the bridge
but none of them sailed close enough ...was hoping one would go
through the Raods while we watched.

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"DSK" wrote:
Da Kine wrote:
The furthest I have ever seen lights off shore Miami from
about 50
miles and I thought that was impressive!



This was just outside the entrance to Bimini?

We sailed to Ft. Pierce from Bimini with no charts, the
lights were a great help!

Seahag

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Seahag wrote:
We sailed to Ft. Pierce from Bimini with no charts, the
lights were a great help!


Now, that's impressive. How did you find your way into
Bimini with no chart?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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you look at the two sticks on the beach and sail toward them, then hang
a port and stay in the deep part -

you should have had charts. that wasn't really all that smart:-)

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Seahag,

Long John Silvers has some place mats that work better than nothing.

Joe

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"DSK" wrote:
Seahag wrote:
We sailed to Ft. Pierce from Bimini with no charts, the
lights were a great help!


Now, that's impressive. How did you find your way into
Bimini with no chart?

We flew:^)
It was when the Coast Guard found the boat aground there
after the Hurricane Trip.

Seahag

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"Da Kine" wrote:
you look at the two sticks on the beach and sail toward
them, then hang
a port and stay in the deep part -

you should have had charts. that wasn't really all that
smart:-)

After the boat was stripped the owner declined to buy his
stuff back from the locals.

Seahag