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    Re: navigation by soundings.
    From: Lu Abel
    Date: 2009 Dec 23, 14:00 -0800

    Apache Runner wrote:
    > Interesting point.
    >
    > I'd read a whimsical story about soundings with a tallow lead.  I wish
    > I could find it again.
    It's from The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast by Duncan and
    Fenn.   And you've related it almost exactly.
    
    When I lived in New England I loved the book.  Because it tried to cover
    all of New England it was not as detailed as guides to, say, just
    Penobscot Bay, but it gave local color as well as simply a description
    of rocks, coves, and marinas.
    
    That was my favorite "old sea dogs" story in the book.   My second
    favorite was about some Maine locals who a century ago bought an old
    church.   They needed to relocate it from one coastal town to another
    nearby town and being practical DownEasters, they lifted the building
    off its foundations, skidded it onto a barge, and started towing it to
    its new home.   Wouldn't you know it, but when they're a mile or two
    offshore a fog blew in.  So they sent one of their crew up the steeple
    to ring the church's bell as a fog signal.  Suddenly the steam yacht of
    a rich New Yorker bursts out of the fog and they heard its captain cry
    "full astern for God's sake, we're about to run aground!!!"
    
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