Phil wrote... >... hailed by a passing sailboat, which wanted to know "What island is >this?" (translation: "Where the hell are we?"). I'm accustomed to giving >directions to tourists in the city, but at sea? This made me recall a 2nd hand story. A friend was boating out of Moss Landing (near Santa Cruz, CA) and was about 10 miles offshore in heavy fog. He was fishing. He chanced upon another boat and heard about the same question -- "Do you have any idea which way back to Santa Cruz?" He told them to hold a heading of 30 degrees and they would get there. "30 degrees? Which way is that?" Apparently they had set out with no charts and no compass. jerry. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 13:23:01 PDT
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