Low DSC connect rate:Sailor irresponsibility or technological failure?

9:00 PM Sat 26 Mar 2011 GMT

'Daria Blackwell' . Click Here to view large photo

Recently we published a story about how few yachts had their Digital Selective Calling (DSC) equipped VHF radio connected to their GPS so that their position would be recorded in an emergency. The tone of the article suggested that the low take-up was an indication of the irresponsibility of sailors, but responses to Sail-World after the article suggest that the situation is more complex than this. Here Alex Blackwell, long time cruiser and co-author of 'Happy Hooking: The Art of Anchoring', tells their tale of attempting to make the system work on their Bowman 57 ketch, Aleria, during the upgrading ...

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by Des Ryan

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Low DSC connect rate:Sailor irresponsibility or technological failure?

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