On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:09:16 -1000, renewontime dot com
wrote:

And one last thing: NEVER leave port without a 406 EPIRB, and test it
monthly.

If you and your yacht are not prepared to do these, then you are not
ready or fit to go to sea.

I agree with everything you said (pretty easy as we're not talking
politics, guns or the mental state of some posters), but in my "inland
waters" case of Lake Ontario, I consider a 406 EPIRB overkill.

A Danbuoy-style MOB pole, a MOB button on an always-on GPS, a handheld
and a nav station VHF monitoring 9, 13 and 16 (as you've indicated),
wearing PFDs at helm and on deck, jacklines, lifelines, flares both
handheld and gun, a "crash box" with spare flares, GPS and handheld
and the fact I frequently tow a RIB while on passage is, I think,
enough.

And let's not forget that 50% of the time I can whip out the cell
phone and dial 911. G

Were I to go offshore or even out of sight of land in ocean water or
in fresh with few shore resources, like Lake Superior, I would sing a
different tune.

R.