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| Scuba1:
AIS will only work within the UHF band and that has a max range with my mast height of around 45 miles and I do try to stay out of shipping lanes as much as I can for safety reasons so it would be of not much use to you tracking my progress or to me other then when I get close to shipping lanes and then I have a more pro active method of using my radar to keep a look out for the big guys out there in my path or me in theirs as it may be. Sonar would be nice but Tiki is only a small sailing boat and not a mine sweeper :) ATB Michael |
| buffalow bill:
Michael, Following your journey with great interest. Keep well, keep safe, enjoy and all the best. Bill |
| Noitoen:
For tracking (few times a day), you can use this http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=101 |
| dsquire:
Michael Hopefully you will have received your parts back by now an should be getting ready to set sail again It is nice to see that you have a good supply of fresh fish. Good luck on catching a shark for the smoker. that would be a real treat. I figured that you would have to keep an eye out for ships but never figured on floating containers. I guess there is probably all kinds of junk floating around out there like trees, logs, drums, tires etc. Look forward to hearing from you again whenever you can. Be safe and stay dry (when you can). Cheers :beer: Don |
| Scuba1:
Yes you are right, there is all sorts of stuff floating around in the oceans but the only thing that could do some damage are containers or a tree trunk of large proportions. The smaller stuff is nothing to worry about. I seem to remember that there are an average of 7000 containers lost from ships every year in bad weather etc. Granted, most of them will sink and be out of the way but some don't. A lot of trees get washed down rivers and float around for a while before they get water logged and go down. But its something one just has to live with I guess. Sailing is as a whole still safer then the daily school run and single handers have a pretty good track record of not bumping into each other. ATB Michael P.S. Still waiting on my injectors :bang: |
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