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AIS first and maybe foremost 
In Response To: Modern ship captains: Do you look at AIS or Radar? 
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() Nothing is a comforting as delaying leaving from behind a spit of land a few minuets into a ships lane and making a 90 degree turn into open waters to find a huge ferry going the other direction in your path. I can see this developing on AIS where my radar would have land structures block the line of sight. This is a common occurrence in Port Jefferson. I also confess that I often don't boot up my radar in nice weather whereas the AIS is always on underway.
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- Modern ship captains: Do you look at AIS or Radar?
- I don't know about where you're going, Jon; but
- Pangas don't use AIS and neither do
- You're no modern ship captain, then Steve.
- I remember hearing this one unfold on VHF
- I remember as well..
- Both boats with fully operational radar. That's disturbing.
- I always hope for wind in thick fog
- I've been thick fog with lobster boats roaring from pot to pot
- Me too. Sailing will save you. If you can't, just slow down.
- I would like to read the story but I refuse
- That's my point. "of little use" is better
- I remember hearing this one unfold on VHF
- You're no modern ship captain, then Steve.
- I don't know that COLREGS have changed but...
- AIS first and maybe foremost
- You can't assume large ships will always show up on AIS
- Turned my radar on today for the first time since the launch day test
- I don't know where you are, but I can tell you this. In the Gulf ICW, beween Galveston Tex and New Orleans La