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Forum: Marine Electronics 15-11-2012, 12:25
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

Ok,- It's confession time. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale where we were raised as hot house pansies. In the 1950's we would get out of school on any day when the high temperature was forecast to be...
Forum: Marine Electronics 15-11-2012, 12:04
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

We cruised well for twenty years without a depthsounder, knotmeter, wind speed or direction instrument. I had a leadline for times when we were poking about an anchorage. We could pretty well judge...
Forum: Marine Electronics 14-11-2012, 17:31
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

I've used my radar in this manner, but all these applications are secondary in importance, redundant in application and seem insignificant when you use your radar to make a passage through the thick...
Forum: Marine Electronics 14-11-2012, 13:29
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

I was just playing with the airplane analogy, but the comparison has always intrigued me.
Forum: Marine Electronics 14-11-2012, 13:07
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

'must have been easy research. I don't think they've put stays on airplane wings since the thirties!
Forum: Marine Electronics 14-11-2012, 10:18
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

I favor Mike's (Waterway Guide) suggestion of the SSB receiver. Gain the broadcast information without the big expense. As for the interfacing, I just don't do it. My radar, GPS, autpilot,...
Forum: Marine Electronics 14-11-2012, 09:25
Replies: 60
Views: 6,159
Posted By Hudson Force
Re: Required or Optional?

We dont cruise with the SSB or AIS though I can see that they can have great value for some. For our first thirty years of cruising we didn't have radar, but for the last ten years of cruising in...
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