To: cuban leaf
Yep. I had a 50’ DeFever trawler with GPS, chart plotter, autopilot, and depth finer, all linked electronically. You can set radar and depth alerts and program the course in and then basically go about your business while the boat does it’s thing. Of course we always had someone on watch but the boat didn’t really care.
7 posted on
05/07/2012 8:29:30 AM PDT by
MtBaldy
(If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
To: MtBaldy
What's why sailboats and motor sailors turn up crushed and missing each year in more heavily travelled shipping lanes and 'the Bermuda Triangle' Freighters of all sorts are set on autopilot without a sufficient watch, or collision avoidance radar.
In the sailing community, we little blow boats are called 'freighter bait'
9 posted on
05/07/2012 8:48:23 AM PDT by
STD
([You must help] people in the communityÂ…feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless)
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