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Is it difficult to find a 32' boat about 50 miles offshore ?

50 miles? Shucks, ten miles out is as good as infinity if you're lost.
You have no idea how big the ocean is.

DSK

Thank God the Search & Rescue people have helicopters and airplanes. Can
you imagine being lost/shipwrecked in the 1800s?

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DSK wrote:
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Is it difficult to find a 32' boat about 50 miles offshore ?

50 miles? Shucks, ten miles out is as good as infinity if you're lost.
You have no idea how big the ocean is.

DSK

Thank God the Search & Rescue people have helicopters and airplanes. Can
you imagine being lost/shipwrecked in the 1800s?

1800s? Things haven't improved all that much if you read some of the not
so old literature about survival at sea. Does anyone recall the large
cruise ship that was hijacked by pirates in the Caribbean, taken out to
the Atlantic and disappeared for a whole week with the entire US Navy
looking for it? I doubt so large a ship could disappear these days but
your 32-footer isn't even a blip on a high resolution satellite picture if
you don't know where it is to begin with.

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