No I call to have it repaired and updated and I was advised that the technology 
was too old and wouldn’t be worth it.  So it got crushed.

Mike
PERSUASION
C&C 37 K/CB
Long Sault

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 9:31 AM, David via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> 
> ...and re-register it.
> 
> David F. Risch
> 
> Gulf Stream Associates, LLC
> 
> (401) 419-4650 
> 
> 
> From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> on behalf of Mike via CnC-List 
> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 5:05 PM
> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
> Cc: Mike
> Subject: Re: Stus-List EPIRB testing and registration
>  
> Reminds me of the time we were visiting the Etobicoke Yacht Club.  We were 
> getting ready to leave and we kept hearing this beep, beep and couldn’t 
> figure out where it was coming from.  Before we could get away some friends 
> stopped by and we had a coffee.  I ask them if they could hear that annoying 
> beep.  They could but they also could not determine where it was coming from. 
>  While we were enjoying our coffee the DO came knocking and asked if we new 
> the coast guard was looking for us and apparently everyone on Lake Ontario as 
> well.  We didn’t.  He informed us that our EPIRB had gone off .  Upon 
> investigation I found that the little pill that dissolves in water had 
> deteriorated.  I immediately pulled the battery, and hailed the coast guard 
> tp call off the posse.
> 
>  
> 
> What’s amazing is that I had never register the EPRIB when I bought 
> Persuasion.  The coast guard called the previous owner who gave them my name.
> 
>  
> 
> So thank you Marek for bringing this to everyone’s attention.
> 
>  
> 
> Conclusion; if you have an EPRIB or any other such devise and are not 
> actively sailing SHUT IT OFF.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
> 
>  
> 
> C&C 37
> 
> Shoal draft
> 
> From: Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List
> Sent: April 11, 2018 12:43 PM
> To: C&C List
> Cc: Marek Dziedzic
> Subject: Stus-List EPIRB testing and registration
> 
>  
> 
> This might be of interest to some of us.
> 
>  
> 
> Apparently there are quite a few false alarms for EPIRB (and similar 
> systems). there was an interesting blurb regarding this problem at Sail Feed:
> 
>  
> 
> https://www.sailfeed.com/2018/04/its-406-epirb-day/?utm_source=sail-enewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=textlink&utm_campaign=enewsletter_SAIL180410
> 
>  
> 
> Marek
> 
>  
> 
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