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Ok I see what you mean. Here again there's several ways to do it. One could be this: make or use a pattern with horizontal distressed lines, paint it all over your coasts. Once it's done, erase the parts on your lands. Assuming you have a layer for your land, select it, expand it as your will and feather it as your will again, then invert selection and erase. You're done
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