Why Do You Need a Marine Radar - Benefits of a Radar System for a Yacht
Thinking why you need a marine radar ? Let’s picture a scene: a lovely day, tenderly moving oceans, and cool breeze, the sort of day where noticeable skyline bends boundlessly far out. Your relentlessly murmuring motor draws your course past Owls Head Light, inside the channel of the most wonderful cruising grounds in the northeastern US. You have efficiently plotted your course through this region presumed for solid flows and rough coastline. An hour out from your goal the breezes back, and in under ten minutes time that expansive, lovely rough coast guiding you up the Penobscot is gobbled up in a cover of thick, dim haze. Another dim day in Maine. Presently, the 300 ft cruising yachts and four lobster vessels you had deliberately seen minutes before are gone too, aside from the swoon far off murmur of motors scarcely visible over your very own and some chuckling conveying from a generally quiet clipper. What next? You refer to the chartplotter, which is nothing but a GPS fix of ...