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What about 20 knots on a pitch black dark night, guess thats unsafe
to.

A yacht's lights are easier to see on a pitch black night than on a
moonlit
night. However, in thick fog, you can't see anything!

What about a tree trunk the size of a car? Any running lights on it,
How about a bouy, not all are lit. Hows about the typical weekend
warrior who forgot to turn on his running lights, hows about a rocky
jettie, how about a tow line and the million other things you can not
see on a pitch black night?

Are you really claiming that it is easy to avoid hitting a tree trunk at 25
kts?

Yes, if you see it on radar a mile ahead of you, its not a problem. I
will admit Ive struck enough submerged logs the the owner of one
crewboat I ran hung so many destroyed propellers on his beach house
that he named it the broken wheel ranch. Thats just part of the job
and should be expected on a high speed boat running the rivers of LA.

Are you saying that you think that it is easier to miss a buoy at 25
kts than at 4 kts??

Its very easy to miss a bouy if you can see it on radar, and most
bouys and day shapes are designed to be seen on radar, big suprise
huh? If you get really good at radar you learn the ranges for the
ports you run. We had color radars on the MV Comet I ran and you could
assign diffrent colors for the height of objects. So lining up the
ranges was a piece of cake. You do know what range marker are huh?
Also when you came into a big field full of rigs you knew by the color
assigned to the rig and knew which one you should be going to.



Pull the other one, Joe -- I put some bells on it, just for you.



That is really scary!

To a lubber like you I imagine it is. Bet you would **** your pants
if you ever landed on a airplane in the fog two. But 100's of them do
it every day.


Well, these days it is easy to land a plane. They land themselves.
Fog has nothing at all to do with landing a modern aircraft.

Same thing on a modern vessel, I quit working boats 10+ years ago Donal and with the advancement of things like radar,FLIR and gps plotters it got to be a 100 times easier today.

Joe


Regards


Donal
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What about a tree trunk the size of a car? Any running lights on it,
How about a bouy, not all are lit. Hows about the typical weekend
warrior who forgot to turn on his running lights, hows about a rocky
jettie, how about a tow line and the million other things you can not
see on a pitch black night?

Are you really claiming that it is easy to avoid hitting a tree trunk at
25
kts?

Yes, if you see it on radar a mile ahead of you, its not a problem.
^^ IF?????

"IF" you see it on radar??????? What about IF you DON'T see it on radar?

[sigh]


I
will admit Ive struck enough submerged logs the the owner of one
crewboat I ran hung so many destroyed propellers on his beach house
that he named it the broken wheel ranch. Thats just part of the job
and should be expected on a high speed boat running the rivers of LA.

Are you saying that you think that it is easier to miss a buoy at 25
kts than at 4 kts??

Its very easy to miss a bouy if you can see it on radar, and most

There you go again! Another "IF" ????????


bouys and day shapes are designed to be seen on radar, big suprise
huh? If you get really good at radar you learn the ranges for the
ports you run. We had color radars on the MV Comet I ran and you could
assign diffrent colors for the height of objects. So lining up the
ranges was a piece of cake. You do know what range marker are huh?

Yes.




Regards



Donal
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