and though he subscribed to Chris, it seemed he made his own decisions - the quintessential Brit sailor knew his abilities and his boat, much like Jon. We couldn't afford a subscription (not cheap) but there always seemed to be someone going our way that had. In three months of listening to Chris I only saw him be wrong on his short term forecast about three times - good record considering the kind of winter we had down there. There were many places, even in the Abacos, where you could not get weather of any sort without a SSB radio. We were quite happy to have ours on several occasions, though it did make some folks smile to see a full size HF rig on such a small boat.