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Subject: Re: TWL: Marine Electronics
From: Andy Woods (awoods@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 22:31:06 EDT
> but my thinking is that if the weather's good, you don't need a whole
> lot of fancy electronics. If the weather turns bad, you'll be inside
> anyway, so that's where the majority of stuff should go. This advice of
> course is worth exactly what you paid for it!
All of our electronics are protected at the lower helm. Most of our
piloting (driving) is from the upper helm. Even in good weather, piloting
from the upper helm, the pilot can get confused. When this happens, the
Admiral (usually) is assigned the pilot duty from the upper helm while I go
below to check the electronics. We also take the paper charts to the upper
helm, in good weather, lay them out and pilot with them. In really bad
weather we are at the lower helm anyway.
BTW, it is really helpful to have a VHF with a remote microphone, thus an
intercom, between the upper and lower helm. Make communication much easier.
Andy
Andy & Linda Woods
Grand Folly
1970 Grand Banks 36 Classic
Georgetown, MD
awoods@XXX.XXX
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