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Which Radar, Redux
On 17 Nov 2003, (Bobsprit) wrote:
Do ferries and barges just wander all over
the LIS? No, they operate in lanes that can
easily be avoided with GPS.
Totally incorrect as any real sailor could tell you.
I guess by your resoning there is no reason for
ferries and barges to have radar or even keep a
wath, since they are so predictable.
Yes, they stay in deep channel's and in the last 8
years I have yet to see a ferry or tug off it's lane.
There was, of course, the collision-related death earlier this summer
after a large (moving at abt. 7 kts) N.Y.C.-based cruise boat crashed
into a J-105 on its way from Larchmont to Block Island which then sank
off the coast of Connecticut. Though reports of that incident suggest
that the collision resulted mostly from the respective crews'
inattention aggravated by the sailing crew's failure to turn off their
boat's autopilot when they saw the motor vessel approaching, one
legitimately might wonder what may have occurred if both (or, for that
matter, either) of the crews were using radar on that dark night.
[Most of] LIS has very little in the way
of visibility issues [on most days].
As Mr. Morris and others, too, have noted, this is almost always
correct.
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