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Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
Having radar or not, common sense should allways be used in fog !
We pre fished the friday before FLW in Dennis on the Ave Maria 2 that has $20k worth of electronics, including the 4k 48 mile Raymarine radar (thats awesome)
We were close to Nantucket drifting in pretty thick fog.
We picked up a boat coming at us on radar, and eventually heard a boat coming at us going pretty fast!
The boat nearly rammed us going WAY too fast, and of course, they had NO radar!
Turned out to be another boat fishing the tournament !
I would bet more than 3/4 operators of boats don't know fog signals according the rules !
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Reading that makes me want to choke that jerk! I fish in the fog quite often, Chatham & Nantucket and I would never, ever think of doing it without radar. These pinheads out there in 17 foot Whalers off Bearses in heavy fog ought to be shot on sight. I can't tell you how many times I have been at a slow cruise, 15-20 kts with my eyes glued to the radar only to have a Whaler type boat appear dead ahead. Radar won't catch everything, and all it takes is one minute of looking off the screen to miss a blip.
Years ago a charter boat out of Chatham got run over in the fog by a large flybridge sport boat running without a watch. Well, the 36' charterboat went to the bottom, one person died and another lost a leg. That's criminal behavior.