Reminds me of the time I took my dad out for his first sailing trip. We were listing to Ch16 which stated: "There is a storm approaching... with sustained winds of 80 Kn. Switch to Channel 22 for further details. We had no Ch22.... and were amazed... did they say 80? or 8? Why warnings of 8? The storm hit within an hour and lasted for hours... over 6 hours at least. Dad and I thought we were both going to die. We... and the boat survived. Not that the radio helped any... but the next day there was another call.... there is a storm approaching with 70 kn. winds, switch to Ch22 for further detais... We anchored our sailboat and we got in our life raft and headed for shore as fast as we could! Robert >2) I see a radio as potentially one more crutch to have along to get me >out of a jam that I should not have gotten myself into in the first >place. Or reach for a radio when other self solutions would work just >as well if not better. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 11 1999 - 07:44:30 PST
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