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I'm thinking more a fogged in Deer Isle Thoroughfare, and you realize, you're in course of a lobsterboat race. 
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That happened once to us! We survived, ears are the best device then. Truth is when we get caught in fog, we're usually in an area of known traffic, mostly small boats that AIS wouldn't help with.
Off Portland or Boston at night, I've never felt in danger but it would be nice to know anything about the tankers in the area. But that's too rare an event for me to install a separate instrument.
Messages In This Thread
- AIS..how important?
- I like having AIS
- We use ours all the time, I really like it ...
- If they managed to hit each other in broad daylight...
- I feel it's almost a must have
- I know exactly how it happened. I've made the run between Bimini
- Once I had it one wouldn't have a boat without one.
- Now that it's available as an app, I'll probably get a version.
- Double check that on Apps
- AIS via internet
- Maybe it will give me a sense of it's worth to us?
- In situations like
- I'm thinking more a fogged in Deer Isle Thoroughfare, and you realize, you're in course of a lobsterboat race.
- I'm thinking more a fogged in Deer Isle Thoroughfare, and you realize, you're in course of a lobsterboat race.
- In situations like
- Maybe it will give me a sense of it's worth to us?
- Is it a Class B or C?
- We really like our Vespermarine Watchmate 850
- How many here have AIS transponders? Or do you just have a reciever?
