Automatic identity System AIS: The best navigation aid to boaters since the GPS. One of the fastest and biggest growth areas in marine navigation is AIS. Having a AIS transponder onboard, will turn your boat into a radio beacon …
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Personal AIS Beacons
Personal AIS Beacons are to pinpoint a MOB victim in the water using the beacons AIS signal.
If you fall overboard, or if someone on your boat falls overboard, standard practice is while the boat turns around to pick up …
Position Polling
Position polling or position request is the gathering of another boats position data i.e. GPS location.
Also referred to as ‘DSC polling”, “buddy tracking” , “position report” & “location polling”. This feature of your VHF can be used to track …
Garmin GMR 18 HD 4KW Radar
Garmin GMR 18 HD 4KW Radar review. Details of this review are courtesy of Tom Schubert who let us look at his yacht a Grand Soleil 47ft. Tom spends lots of time cruising around the east Coast and Caribbean and …