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Larry
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Yacht sunk by Ferry
Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6547267.stm
Full AIS transponders.....the sooner, the better for everyone.
If you can afford a yacht, you can afford a small AIS transponder. Noone
HAS to die. Ouzo would have had the same size target on the AIS screen in
that ferry as a big aircraft carrier. No need, any more, to rely on some
plastic reflective ball to make you a tiny blip on someone's 1957 tube
radar screen, fading in and out as the mast lays over. EVERY yacht going
to sea in this traffic needs a full AIS transponder running 24/7.
There's too much big traffic, today, to go on without it.
Larry
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