I am confused. If your boat is uninsured, why is there any discussion on agreed value vs real worth?
I met under insured
I am confused. If your boat is uninsured, why is there any discussion on agreed value vs real worth?
on their report they say it is a shrimper
I wish I had never posted this thread here.
Okay. I expect you will all excoriate me and run me through the coals now as you all seem firm proponents of radar, and am not saying you should not have one; However, any electronic device should only be used as an assistance, an additional tool to have. After all, what if a lightning strike or some big battery problem knocks out all your electronics? What then?
Back in the 1960's when I was a newbie learning from the old salts of the day, very few pleasure vessels power or sail were equiped with radar. No one had gps. No one had a chart-plotter. We learned to stand watch by "standing" and getting up out of the cockpit and viewing the horizon from the mast where your eye is higher above the horizon. You cannot see well from behind a dodger down in the cockpit, especially if there are seas, or if your eyes are being blinded by lights left on down below. If you don't like getting wet or feeling cold then buy better gear to wear or take up a different sport.
And your night vision will be blinded and compromised from staring at a screen. Expecting to be able to see anything in the darkness after looking at anything lighted is foolish. Back then, the only thing in the cockpit with a light was the binnacle, and that was only very dimly lit. Now days I see folks with big colorful brightly-lit chartplotters mounted to their binnacles!
I always kept electronics down below where they are dry and unable to blind the night watch. Always held a paper chart on deck too and nowdays many folks do not even carry paper charts for their itinerary.
Am an old-school proponet of dark decks when standing watch. And a firm believer in getting up and looking around frequently. Have sailed many miles for many years in all conditions with no radar. Am not saying don't get one, but am suggesting it should not be relied on to the sacrifice of basic watch-standing prinicples.
Some of the older medium to high end Furuno radars were dang good.I have an old Furuno green screen 48 mile radar that does a pretty decent job of painting crab pots. Useful at night.
Some of the older medium to high end Furuno radars were dang good.
For quite awhile preferred by pros over the newer Radars. Today, probably couldn't go head to head but still capable of keeping you safe.
Older radars and the average rec boater were like oil and water.
When working at a marine electronics firm I spent many a day tutoring owners on the most basic of radar things.
You just can't get good at things when only using them occasionally.
Okay, not sure where I am going with this info. Until this boat, I have never used radar and have just played around with the radar in good weather where I can compare. The surveyor told me "Don't get rid of this radar until it breaks. This was a very good unit". I played around with it and developed a sense of how to interpret it but!, it appears from reading here that I have an ignorant sense of bliss.
I am not a techy and will be starting my own thread as I am about to replace everything. That is I was going to replace everything but the radar.
Good basic Radar is essentially all you need.
Not sure if this thread should spin off to a Radar thread as Radar in depth is a small part of the OP.
I for one would like to know why the USCG would accept a statement from someone that was not on scene as opposed to the crew that was. .
I for one would like to know why the USCG would accept a statement from someone that was not on scene as opposed to the crew that was. Sounds to me that the trawler crew has something to hide. Granted there was no loss of life or serious bodily injury, but sounds like an incomplete and biased investigation. Those with more knowledge and experience please tell me why the crew on board the trawler were not questioned.
So did the USCG accept or receive it? Those are two very different things for the linguists here.
Don L has every right to send the USCG a self-serving statement if not already done.