GL: Sterling Lady in Lantana

[Bob McLeran]

Well, that's great if there is a statute mile associated with your
position and marked on the chart, such as on the ICW or the Erie Canal. 
Perhaps the inland rivers are marked off in statute miles, but that is 
about it. You won't find statute miles indicated on the Chesapeake, 
Delaware, New Jersey coast, or the Great Lakes. Better to just give a 
physical location based on some indication on the chart rather than just 
try to determine a statute mile location in those areas where statute 
miles are not indicated on charts.

BTW, once you're _not_ in a waterway or river, distances are measured in
nautical miles, not statue miles. This would apply to those "off-loop" 
areas for people daring to extend their loop travel to New England and 
beyond. :-{)

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Bob McLeran and Judy Young              Cruising the Atlantic Coast
MV Sanderling                           Defever 41 Trawler 

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Currently: Royal Kennebeccasis Yacht Club, St. John, New Brunswick

On 8/21/2008 9:58 AM, veiner at juno.com wrote:
> Follow up suggestion:
>
> For you loopers are writing to us armchair sailors, why not just say: I am at
> Lantana (SM 1030.0), or I will anchor at Peck Lake (SM 992.5). Just take a
> look at your plotter or chart.