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Which Radar, Redux
On 18 Nov 2003, (Bobsprit) wrote:
I don't agree with RB that its easy to avoid
ferries because their course is predictable.
There are no such ferries on the LIS.
There are, in fact, several high-speed commuting ferries regularly
operating on the L.I. side of the sound (including comparatively near
where this "Bobsprit" fellow claims to sail regularly - e.g., out of
Hempstead harbor), although nowhere near as many as in Boston harbor
or in N.Y.C. harbor.
The only risk would be the party fishing
boats, but they also have a pretty tight
zone of operation.
This is true, if one defines as "pretty tight" the area bounded on the
easterly/southerly side by the "L.I." part of that sound and, on the
northerly/westerly side, by Bronx/Westchester and Connecticut/R.I.
(and, for the party boats operating out of, say, City Island and New
Rochelle, mostly south of Stamford, Ct.).
It is true, as the above and others have said earlier, that fog in
those parts of the L.I. Sound that interferes substantially with
line-of-sight boating is comparatively very unusaul and that (at least
during daylight hours) radar rarely is needed in those areas (or in
most other places on that sound).
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