WaIIy wrote in
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Most excellent story along with superb writing.

Thanks


I'll second that. You should submit this great story to the sailing rags.
It would be a great break in between the thinly disguised advertising
"stories" to move product.

Very well written. Glad you're all safe.

A friend and I moved another friend's Endeavour 35 from where he left it on
the dock at Daytona Beach, up the ditch to Mayport, then at sea to
Charleston. After a great night of excellent winds, the sun rose and we
left the autopilot steering to get some breakfast. As we set chatting of
our great luck, a HUGE, empty, wooden cable reel that was easily larger
than the boat floated by several boatlengths away.

I still shudder at the thought of ramming that damned cable reel in the
total darkness of the preceding night. The Raymarine 2KW radar never made
a blip. The reel was totally radar transparent, even 10 boatlengths away
with the low pole-mounted antenna.

Got any idea the lat/long of those pipes sticking up? Are they on the
chart?