Sort Coordinates with short distance along path

Hi and Welcome.

I'm not sure sorting by the shortest distance will actually work. If you think about starting at your first point and finding the closest point to that then that sets you in one direction (say clockwise) around the circumference of the lake. If you now move to that new point (in a clockwise direction) and find the shortest distance then you'll actually come back to the point you just started from so you need to actually move to the next (2nd) shortest distance BUT how do you know that the 2nd shortest distance is the next point heading in the same direction (clockwise) around the lake? there could actually be a point just the other side of the point you came from that's still closer than the next point heading in a clockwise direction.

Sounds confusing.

I'm thinking there is a way to maybe set a point in the middle of the lake and measure angles to points around the lake and sort by angle but not sure what happens when you get irregular points around the lake as I think that will stuff things up too.