[email protected] wrote: > ----- 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<<< >> > > International law states radio must be turned on any time boat is not > docked. Al civilized couutries are signatories to this international > convention.
Which law is it? The only one I know about is one that says if you are a charter or inspected vessel you must have it on, or if otherwise if you do have it on you must listen on 16. I DO NOT normally have mine on, for several reasons, first mostly all I ever hear is chatter about things that have no bearing, and it runs the battery down for no good reason and second, almost never do ships hail me on 13 or 16. I doubt they would call even if they were about to run me down since it seems they seldom see me. As evidence of this last is the fact that the Coast Guard had put out a call for sightings of my boat to be reported when somebody erronesly called them and told them we were overdue this last spring, and although I saw several ships no one reported me. However, even though I was hundreds of miles out, there is a slim possibility that I might have heard the CG call then. In the future, if the battery power is plentiful, I may leave the radio on more often. If I could get one that had the vessel reporting feature for a reasonable cost, I would definitely use it much more. -Ken _______________________________________________ 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
