tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post8341011976534666681..comments2011-11-30T11:13:57.403-05:00ActiveCaptainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08746387118276013808noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-57115768647950636902011-11-30T11:13:57.403-05:002011-11-30T11:13:57.403-05:00Good video and calm seas. I am anxious to see your choices and follow along with your electronic upgrade especially given the fog here in the bay area.<br /><br />Ortega Landing is a great place and we enjoyed our month there this time last year.<br /><br />Take care and stay warm I know Jacksonville can get cold at night.<br /><br />Gerald Wallace<br />m/v Kiwi MagicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-28308041021495878882011-11-16T13:39:29.836-05:002011-11-16T13:39:29.836-05:00Roger - good question. We only have radar right now. AIS is one of the things we&#39;re adding over the winter along with completely re-doing all of the electronics. AIS would have helped a lot especially if those shrimp boats had transponders.<br /><br />The most confusing place was the area outside the Savannah River where I shot the video. I used a cool trick on the radar to help figure it out. There is a &quot;wake&quot; setting mode that leaves a little tail over time showing where the targets used to be. The tails grow for about 10 minutes so you can get a great idea of movement. For ships standing still, all the tails would be in the same direction as they came closer because we were moving toward them. Any tail in a different direction meant that the ship was moving. That would be one that we&#39;d target with MARPA (a radar tracking and intersection tool - Roger, I know you know!). It turned that mess of targets into just 3-4 that I had to watch and track. MARPA provides target intersection time and distance. We don&#39;t allow any ship to get within 1/2 mile of us at night. Alarms go off if one will be inside that intersection range.<br /><br />It was pretty unsettling for about an hour. It would have also been a little better with the option of overlaying radar on the chart (something that I can&#39;t do because of a Raymarine failure on the boat right now).<br /><br />We need new electronics...TakingPawshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08746387118276013808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-78874638098855971802011-11-16T10:52:36.343-05:002011-11-16T10:52:36.343-05:00Thanks for posting the videos. Re: the night ship traffic - what did you find the most useful, AIS on the chart plotter or the radar images?Roger Montembeaultnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-36146249856349043452011-11-15T12:23:38.002-05:002011-11-15T12:23:38.002-05:00Flybridge piloting - almost none. Most &quot;normal&quot; people would have been up there for most of the day on Saturday. It was beautiful weather - 75 to 80 degrees. For us, one was piloting and the other was on their computer. The pilothouse can&#39;t be beat for that.<br /><br />We had internet access for the entire time offshore.TakingPawshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08746387118276013808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-6254550121390444022011-11-15T12:16:03.963-05:002011-11-15T12:16:03.963-05:00Calm ocean, great weather, good passage. How much time did you spend running the boat from the fly bridge?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-91681503126523072512011-11-14T23:05:31.543-05:002011-11-14T23:05:31.543-05:00Thanks much for the vicarious cruise experience!Bill Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241952325618372090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094657631101054024.post-188995812422158822011-11-14T12:37:04.458-05:002011-11-14T12:37:04.458-05:00Really neat seeing the ocean so calm. Long day and night for you both. Thanks for the videos!<br /><br />Paula Sue Russell<br />paulasue1@aol.com<br />http://oceanbreeze-lake-erie.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com