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• A Donald Crowhurst connection
  • Are those LW beacons still broadcasting?
    • As far as I know they have been decommissioned for some time, Gene.
      • Is this part of LORAN?
        • An entirely different system
    • They were shut down...
  • I remember those. They were around
    • Had a lot of practice on those
    • Our boat came with a flasher depth sounder
      • I have a Lowrance fish finder, with 4 screens. The flasher screen is one of them
        • The original ones were pretty cool although
          • I remember! That and an old
          • LOL- Yep- still have one (works fine) out in the store room. I don't want to go back thank you
          • The boat I grew up sailing on had a flasher depth sounder
    • Old RDFs.
  • Interesting story - Donald Crowhurst
    • My friend, Al, is the one with the Crowhurst connection
    • NetFlix has a documentary
  • Interesting. And that 170.00 is inflated to 1020.00, today.
    • I was making $1.60 an hour, minimum wage at the time, bagging groceries after school at the local IGA.
      • At todays minimum wage rate, that would have been 1.29 an hour.