Agreed and I do monitor 16 most of the time however once in a while mostly Friday afternoons I may risk life and limb and turn the damn thing off to preserve my sanity. I also will go the extra mile to help/save some unfortunate boater or anyone else anytime just ask my wife.:-) Some Fridays I realize I can't save the whole world and turn it off, which is why I drove up to the Bay to go sailing in the first place. USCG does not inspect my vessel eh!
Boaters by their nature, not sure that includes the weekend crowd of car like driver operators, realize for the most part they are on their own and don't expect big brother to rescue them, I don't for one. JohnB Ron Rogers wrote: > Pleasure boats which have their radios on must monitor 16. No problem > keeping them off if you wish to risk your safety and that of others. > > USCG "Inspected Vessels" must monitor 16. U.S. commercial vessels must > monitor both 13 and 16 - usually with two different radios. Once you are at > sea, or cruising on a weekday, the airwaves become near silent and you can > get early warning of the presence commercial shipping by just monitoring > channel 13. 16 lets you help others. > > Ron Rogers > > _______________________________________________ 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
