----- Original Message ----- From: "JohnB" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] 9/27-30/09 Lake Worth to Abacos, Bahamas
> Monitoring is nice but don't we sail for the quiet enjoyment of being > swept along by the wind? Granted it is nice to be connected in case > of.......... but around here, Great Lakes, >>> snip<<< REPLY Strictly speaking when you install a VHF radio aboard your vessel for your convenience you also accept responsibility involved. International law states radio must be turned on any time boat is not docked. Al civilized couutries are signatories to this international convention. But it has been my obsrvation that recreational boaters seem to think responsibility only applies to the other guy. A friend of mine while anchored overnight in his sailboat heard a Mayday call. Coast Guard asked the boat in distress to set off flares because the searching boats could not find him at the location given/. My friend did see flares more than 10 miles from the location given by the boat in distress and went and rescued him. Never even got word of thanks and the distressed person never said a word simply walked up to a phone booth and called for someone to come and get him in a car. He never came back for his boat insted he sent someone to go fetch it for him. Guess my friend should have left his radio turned off. :-( _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
