Re: When "no rules fools" buy a boat!

Tony Sivori wrote:
gfretwell wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:55:05 -0800, "Bill" <billnomailnospamx@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Anyway I now fully understand "the mystery" of the Bermuda Triangle". No
mystery at all!
That is more accurate that you would think. A lot of the people who get
lost in that area think Bimini is only "this far on the map" and take
off in a small boat without any real nav aids. Even if they have a good
compass and use reasonable dead reckoning skills that 6 knot Gulf Stream
makes them miss Bimini by about 20 miles. Next stop, Africa. Hope you
brought plenty of water. Toss in very unpredictable weather and a glitch
in the old LORAN system, you have the makings of a legend.

When I lived in Florida, I read a news item from the Coast Guard about ill
prepared ocean going boaters. My favorite was the one where the boater had
little of the required safety equipment. He was attempting to reach the
Bahamas, and his nautical navigation charts were seafood restaurant place
mats.

We have a friend who sailed from Belize to Florida gulf coast, stopped off in Mexico. Heading across from Mexico, came upon a diving buoy with no boat in sight. They stayed around a while, wondering WTF. Two divers surfaced. They had been close to midway across the gulf, and their charter had left them. Picked up the two divers and took them back to Mexico.
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