[PerConPat]

It is also quite shocking when you are driving a ship in reduced visibility and suddenly sight a poorly radar reflecting wooden or fiberglass small craft bobbing up and down dead ahead! It can make for some colorful language on the bridge, LOL.

[maica]

How about sailing hard to windward right through US Navy maneuvers in the Caribbean! We did that in 1976. We were sailing from Puerto Rico to Saint Croix and if we had fallen off to go south of the cruiser to our starboard, who was planning to do something with some barges and rafts to our port, we would not really have been able to make St Croix at all! We just had a 4hp engine, and we had just realized on that voyage that I was not having 2 days of seasickness, but was going to make my husband a father VERY unplannedly!

We had signal lights flashing us, (no radio on our little 33ft sloop) and even a helicopter buzz us, but we just kept the boat pointed as hard on the wind as she would go and made for the harbor! It was probably a good thing that she was a British registered yacht!

[rodguy911]

I doubt that is a problem with the Enterprise, their nav instrumentation charts the smallest of vessels when they leave the dock. It’s a whole new ball game out there today.