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Richard Casady

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:29:06 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:27:32 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:14:46 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:42:44 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

Radar does use a fair amout of power. That's a fact but not
necessarily an issue on a larger boat with decent battery banks.
Modern radars do have power saving modes where they wake up every
minute or so, make a few sweeps, activate an alarm if targets are
detected, and then go back to sleep.

I've sailed thousands of miles
at night without radar but I count myself lucky and will never do it
again if I have a choice.

Radar sunk the Andrea Doria. The 3rd officer on the Stockholm misread
his.

Then the 3rd Officer on the Stockholm sank the Andrea Doria, not the
RADAR.

If he hadn't had it he wouldn't have misread it.

Casady