At 08:25 PM 10/23/2009, Ron Rogers wrote: > Pleasure boats which have their radios on must monitor 16. No problem >keeping them off if you wish to risk your safety and that of others. > >USCG "Inspected Vessels" must monitor 16. U.S. commercial vessels must >monitor both 13 and 16 - usually with two different radios. Once you are at >sea, or cruising on a weekday, the airwaves become near silent and you can >get early warning of the presence commercial shipping by just monitoring >channel 13. 16 lets you help others. > >Ron Rogers
Reply: I remember we had this same discussion a while back. Then I had searched for any regs and the bottom line is that recreational boats do not have to have the radios on, but if on and not otherwise in use must monitor Ch. 16. In use could be chatting on another channel or monitoring 13 where and when applicable. I don't see any safety risk in uncrowded areas, but the ICW and high traffic areas, such as passes, harbors, etc. are another matter. Having said that, our radio is usually on until bedtime. We have two on when traveling in "Ch. 13" areas. The main one on 13 and a handheld on 16. Sometimes the chatter is so constant that we turn it off when in uncrowded areas. Are the towboat types in South Florida still transmitting "commercials" on 16 every 30 seconds? Rick 'n' Cathy S/V Valkyrie http://www.morelr.com/valkyrie _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
