Open Sea?

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When I was a kid, we had boats on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. There was no air conditioning in those days, so we slept on the boat almost every weekend. My Dad had a stressful job and hated to leave on Sunday night. We went out to dinner a lot (by boat) and then went home in the dark, sometimes during squalls and thunderstorms. Dad would navigate with a compass, using lighthouses, and other night time aids to navigation. I took the wheel from the eigth grade on. My brother was on the bow with a search light looking for debris in water. It was the most exciting thing I ever did as a kid.