Fishman, you are correct that not all charts are marked with the 3mile limit line.
Personally I could care less that Herb went over the edge.
The intent of my posts are to show that with the simplest of equipment there is no way that a boater is going be "lost".
Capt Segull Chart #CBM119 is marked with the 3mile line, GMCO's Cape May Cape Hatteras Offshore chart is not. I do not know if it is marked on my other charts, they are on the boat. Regardless, it is easy to stay inside, or get outside the 3mile limit. I have both LORAN and a GPS chartplotter on my boat and though I consider myself to posses on the most basic of navigating skills I can easily tell where I am at with the use of a chart and compass, the LORAN unit, or the GPS alone - no radar needed. If I as a recreational boater/fisherman have these charts and equipment onboard I doubt a commericial would have anything less.
As an example of how easy it is, entering the 37 lat/longs below into your gps and saving them as a route, then selecting that route to nav, the gps will draw the selected route on your gps screen showing the 3mile limit all along our coast down to NC. This information is widely known, passed on, and shared.
3MILE01 N37 15.859 W75 43.106
3MILE02 N37 14.863 W75 43.706
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3MILE36 N36 23.486 W75 45.878
3MILE37 N36 22.208 W75 45.519
Though earlier on this same thread I originally attributed Herb's blunder to "human error" in reality I privately found this hard to believe. But hey, give the guy the benifit of a doubt. There is a bunch of postings going on in the other boards re this topic, Herb is just going to have to weather the storm - he, afterall, started it.
Lou