Tag Archive 'epirb'

Nov 26 2010

Float Plan – almost as good as an EPIRB

Published by under safety at sea,Sailing

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Jul 07 2010

Upside down in wild cold seas in Northern California

Published by under rescue,safety at sea,weather

Just gotta wonder what they were thinking. Everyone got rescued, but there was probably no good reason why they should have found themselves upside down under their catamaran in the first place. Read the report in Latitude 38. Then comment, critique, write a diatribe or just speculate. BTW – if you don’t subscribe to the [...]

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Apr 29 2010

Did you hear that idiot?? My list of VHF procedural peeves

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There are some folks whose conversations on VHF channel 16 are quite entertaining. Most of us know that #16 is for hailing and emergencies only, but that does not seem to be the universal rule, or at least not universally embraced. In fact, in some parts of the world – I’m thinking BVI – you [...]

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