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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 Response To: Modern ship captains: Do you look at AIS or Radar? 
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() which in 6 round trips, I have found to be THE busiest section of the entire US ICW with tow boats, if you don't have an AIS running so you can call the tows by name, they pretty much WILL NOT respond on VHF. No more of this "west bound tow at mile ??, this is the sailboat east bound" You'll get silence 90% of the time.
Radar would , in that area, be fairly useless, but next I travel east from Texas waters I WILL have at least an AIS reciever.
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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