"Patty O'Furniture" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:04:11 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:02:48 -0600, Richard J Kinch
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~~ snippage ~~

He did remark that the buoys
300 ft off the shoreline were put in only a year or two ago. Now I
wonder
if there wasn't a 9/11 super-security justification for some new strict
regulations.

That's a good point. I know over in Narragansett Bay, the bridge
restrictions are no stopping, anchoring or trolling within 500 feet of
the bridges and the Navy base shore. The shore line is bouyed, but
the bridges aren't.

They aren't enforcing it though - it almost impossible to.

Navy base in N-Bay? Was it installed after 1970, or was I below, making a
sandwich when my dad cruised us through the bay way back then?

It's the Navy's Antisubmarine Warfare Center in Newport, RI. Entering
the Bay from East Passage, it's right after the Newport Bridge on the
Starboard side.

I'm pretty sure it was there in the '70s.

Later,

Tom

I must've been making a sandwich. But, I was pretty attentive to notes on
the charts, especially since my father once drove us right through an area
where there was a target practice ship parked, and got a rather terse
talking to from a sub. Pretty funny, at least to my sister and I. :-) Dad
was not amused.

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Patty O'Furniture" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:04:11 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"Patty O'Furniture" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:02:48 -0600, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

He did remark that the buoys
300 ft off the shoreline were put in only a year or two ago. Now I
wonder
if there wasn't a 9/11 super-security justification for some new strict
regulations.

That's a good point. I know over in Narragansett Bay, the bridge
restrictions are no stopping, anchoring or trolling within 500 feet of
the bridges and the Navy base shore. The shore line is bouyed, but
the bridges aren't.

They aren't enforcing it though - it almost impossible to.

Navy base in N-Bay? Was it installed after 1970, or was I below, making a
sandwich when my dad cruised us through the bay way back then?

It's the Navy's Antisubmarine Warfare Center in Newport, RI. Entering
the Bay from East Passage, it's right after the Newport Bridge on the
Starboard side.

I'm pretty sure it was there in the '70s.

Later,

Tom

I must've been making a sandwich. But, I was pretty attentive to notes on
the charts, especially since my father once drove us right through an area
where there was a target practice ship parked, and got a rather terse
talking to from a sub. Pretty funny, at least to my sister and I. :-) Dad
was not amused.


Before the correction robots get all fussy, I should add that this area was
not in N-Bay, but out in the Block Island Sound, if I recall, maybe halfway
between BI and Montauk, maybe somewhat north of a line drawn between those
two places.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:23:03 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

Before the correction robots get all fussy, I should add that this area was
not in N-Bay, but out in the Block Island Sound, if I recall, maybe halfway
between BI and Montauk, maybe somewhat north of a line drawn between those
two places.

Yep - it's called a torpedo range. Purple colored area on the chart.

There are four of them in that area :)

Later,

Tom