b393capt wrote in
ups.com:

Already have an AIS receiver do you, why not stop there, you get most
of the benefit. The class of boats that are required to carry a
transciever are unlikely to take action to avoid your boat, unless you
are stationary. Even then, they might just only honk.

Spend the euros on some good food & drink for your crew




Do you sail much at night in a busy seaway or with crossing ship traffic
going up a coast?

The idea is to be SEEN, and to inform the other AIS stations of your
boat's name/size/call/MMSI/course/speed....before you're run down by a
much faster ship who didn't see your little 50' mast on his radar
shooting over it from way up there....

The crew has plenty of slop and way too much rum, already....


Larry
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