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Pat Anderson



Joined: 02 Nov 2003
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City/Region: Birch Bay, WA
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thataway wrote:
Your plan is solid. If you add AIS you may want an inexpensive, or older chart plotter to have that information displayed. The AIS will clutter up the screen of the main chart plotter.
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The place where I found a lot of AIS "clutter was major ports, such as San Francisco. Not only did the commercial boats, freighters, but also all of the committee boats of St. Francis YC, and many recreational boats...


Where we found AIS indispensable was on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers - so we could "see" tows around the bend, hail them by name, and ask the Captain via radio how he wanted us to pass. Here, not many bends to worry about, except perhaps Turn Point on Stuart Island!

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smckean (Tosca)



Joined: 18 Jan 2014
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City/Region: Guemes Island (Anacortes)
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C-Dory Model: 25 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Tosca
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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......except perhaps Turn Point on Stuart Island!

Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing ..............good one!

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hardee



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City/Region: Sequim
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OR the turn from Juan de Fuca up Harro Strait or not.....

AND the bend around Point Wilson, 2.

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garyf



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City/Region: Lincoln
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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OR the turn from Juan de Fuca


Last time I came in through Juan de Fuca, I was riding up on the sail of a 600 ft long black cylinder powered by uranium. I honestly don't know if they run AIS. I suppose they probably do.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Garyf, I'm not sure if they do either, but I assure you, that those escort vessels do have AIS receive (and probably AIS running in stealth mode) but they sure know where I am or any other non military craft within about 25 - 40 miles and if you are within a 5 mile circle, you - no me ( the private citizen boat) will be met and have a course correction suggested buy the guy beside the 50 cal. Doesn't take many times to learn to recognize the "entourage".

Don't think I ever saw an AIS for the long black tube, but there is usually one for a CG or "Military" vessel.

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garyf



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the day (my last run was in '90 I think) we didn't get any escorts that I remember until we were getting pretty close to the floating bridge.

The CO made a point to tell me that it was critical to be lined up on the bridge opening and verify the bridge was in fact open at 2 miles out... which isn't much past Pt Hannon to be honest... that was the "go/no-go" waypoint for safety to get that thing stopped if necessary. That made an impression on me.

I don't remember the speed through the bridge, but seem to recall our speed limit once we turned down into the sound past Pt Townsend was 12 kts.

Memories...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gary, I started boating up here in 2000. At that time there were escorts, USCG I believe, maybe a Cutter and a fast boat or two. Now there are 2 Navy side-by-side escorts, a USCG cutter and a pair of Navy fast boats in the 40 - 50 foot range. They make huge wakes. The side-by-sides almost completely hide the "sail". Always fun to see them go by -- from a distance -- to know there is some huge power there.

Harvey
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Update on MFD install:

From what I can tell, not all C-Dory dashes are created equal. My '91 cruiser dash has a 'hump' in the middle of it apparently intended to give more clearance round the steering mechanism and any gauges that might be above it. It sounds like the hump was removed in newer models, so you may not need to do the surgery I had to do to shoehorn a 12" MFD into my dash... but if you DO, this is how I did it.

First photo is an overhead view of the "hump" at the bottom. The "frown" shape is the slot I cut into the hump with a Dremel tool. The big circle cut in the upper left corner was for the compass that the previous owner had installed. I pulled that compass to make room for the MFD. At some point in the future, I'll tidy things up with some Star Board.



This is a shot looking aft from the windshield at the slot I cut...



This shows how the standard bracket supplied with the Garmin MFD slides into the slot that I cut...



And here's the final fit. It sits as low as possible, I can see over it just fine - but readily accessible and easy to operate. I did slide it a little left (inboard) to give a bit more clearance from the windshield and also allow room for something to be mounted to the right of it.

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PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2021 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gary, very nice looking mounting job. And, nice and clean looking helm.

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