the alflus pic try attached to the original of this message 7562
was made from the upper deck of the florabama bar
which was recently featured in the news for its many distinctions
including an annual borderline mullet toss
a long distance fish throwing contest conducted lengthwise
along the state line
http://tinyurl.com/g32j

the original dilemma
has long since been resolved to my satisfaction

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m donner"
<maxivan82@h...> wrote:

> a few of the 20 federal maritime tripoints of the usa are

problematic

> especially alflus & latxus & the prusvi twins
> all of which occur where the double standard of 3nm & 9nm

maritime regimes

> collide
>
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=3345177&e=453131&s=
200&size=m&symshow=n

> gives the usgs interpretation of alflus
>
> in it you can see the dashed alfl state line heading out to sea

toward the

> solid red line
> for a distance of 3nm on the alabama side but 9nm on the

florida side

> to produce a tripoint at the sharp angle where the 2 regimes

presumably meet

>
> this point would fall near the middle horizon in the attached

photo

> in which you can visualize alfl running thru the alley at lower

right

> & out to sea past the red flag on the beach
>
> but it seems to me that the usgs map errs
> by not extending floridas 9nm of territorial waters westward

everywhere

> beyond alabamas 3nm
> in a broad arc centered at the point where alfl leaves land in

this photo

> & thus all the way to about the middle of quadrant 795 on the

existing red

> line
> thereby enclosing within florida waters all of quads 751 752

753 754 796 797

> & 798
> & parts of 795 840 841 & 842
>
> such a revised tripoint position
> which would truly satisfy the conditions of both regimes as

much as possible

> probably falls at or just beyond the right edge of the photo
>
> so if i am right
> i may well have missed the point