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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
    • Not concerned about pangas, fishing boats, lobster boats...
      • The one thing Pangas aren't doing is keeping watch! Especially
        • I doubt my radar would pick those up
          • As long as you are in the US Radar and chart over lays work
            • Radar overlay on charts work perfectly South of the US border
              • leopard shark being consumed by sealion?
                • Sorry, that was from photo day, but it keeps reattaching itself
  • 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..
          • I use AIS and radar.
        • Both boats with fully operational radar. That's disturbing.
          • I knew the Deatons quite well and remember when the lobster boat t-boned them
            • Wow! We're they fishing or just hammered?
            • Not much you can do. The lobster boats are working.
        • I always hope for wind in thick fog
          • I've been thick fog with lobster boats roaring from pot to pot
            • Sounds more like something Tom made up.
              • Not me. I've never had a lobster boat buzz me.
                • YMMV
                  • 20' is a big miss for a belligerent lobsterman...
                    • I was
                  • They are just people so the rule, 'you're just around the corner from your next A-hole", still applies.
                  • I was mooned once off of Stonington
                    • They do have a rep around Stonington. Listen to this review on AC.
                      • The reputation is well deserved and they take great pride in it.
                      • I was berthed next to the daughter of a infamous
                        • That's Dads boat. Not an easy life out there. I watched "High Islander" come in this past season.
          • Me too. Sailing will save you. If you can't, just slow down.
        • I would like to read the story but I refuse
          • When I click the link it goes directly to the BDN story.
          • The first link did, the second elicited two answers . SO here's the "text" copied for Jeremy.
            • Thanks, SG. I like this part . . .
              • I mean to add . . .
                • Which is EXACTLY the reason when I was sailing across the Great Bahama Bank, Bimiini to NW Channel Light I shifted
      • That's my point. "of little use" is better
  • I don't know that COLREGS have changed but...
    • Right now I am in the civilized world and more concerned with practice than COLREGs...
      • You never know
  • AIS first and maybe foremost
    • Two nice things about AIS: low power and no radar detector interference
      • The SeaMe might not trigger response
        • Trouble with broadband is you have to change out your whole instrument system to use it..
          • No, just change the CP
        • FMCW radar still uses the x-band at a nominal 9.4GHz
  • 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
    • Was this the inflatable you saw?
      • When I first got into navigation I thought an artificial horizon was......
  • I don't know where you are, but I can tell you this. In the Gulf ICW, beween Galveston Tex and New Orleans La
    • In the Chesapeake (and the places I've been north and east of here)
      • From Miami to Norfolk, last I ran that, I saw exactly 5 tows. The area I mentioned
      • so WM is just overwhelmed with this... which one is good?