> I know for a fact this requirement is widely ignored, even by power > boaters, who do not have the battery life issues we do. > > I do not know if the Canadian marine regs on VHF watch have changed. Don't know if it has changed here in Canada, but I do know that it is not enforced (and therefore ignored). What monitoring, officer... darn thing doesn't work :-) ... or didn't work when I tried to turn it on an hour ago... No, really - after 2 or 3 days of wearing Icom V5 for many hours on sea trip, I couldn't normally use it, until rinsed it with fresh water (concentric knobs got glued together with salt). *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 17:02:05 PST
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