Barkley Sound Day 1 – The Packing
Today we packed, and packed, and packed, and then stored, and stored, and stored all that packed stuff into hidden
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Author: Rich
Child Over Board! Ack!
Okay, so in the previous two posts I’ve talked about Man-Over-Board and various systems for detecting and helping recover the
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Know when to hold ’em, know when to walk away… (from the head that is.)
I can knock another project off the list. One thing we didn’t have visibility into was how full the holding
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How the AIS-SART Shows up on screen
Yesterday I successfully tested the VHF-DSC and AIS transmission features of the OceanSignal MOB1 attached to one of our lifejackets. First
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Proximity MOBs, SARTS, and PLBs..
When last I wrote, I went on about my fear of man overboard conditions and then introduced three types of
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Dealing with my (ir)rational fear of an open ocean MOB
One of my biggest fears relative to our upcoming ocean crossing is the possibility of someone falling off of the
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One Year in and the Rest of my Life to go…
Bear with me… A year ago, my aunt, who I don’t talk to very often, called me to tell me
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