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Van, you have no business being out there in pea soup with just a plotter either. It's dangerous business these days of big boats with auto pilots, barges and other boaters that think they can steam along in the fog because they know where THEY are. Last year I was on Stellwagen when the fog rolled in and had a close encounter with a container ship that SILENTLY came across my bow and disappeared just as stealthily. It scared the %$%$%$%$e out of me, my wife and oldest daughter who were also onboard. I vowed that I would curtail my offshore trips and inshore foggy day trips until I put out for a radar. I had a top fabricated and put a Furuno 1623 on it this spring. It cost a bundle but I can safely fish many more days now. I had way too many close encounters in the fog.
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