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Coastguard Rescue Centres to concentrate their efforts on dealing with real maritime emergencies, but it also gives the National Coastwatch volunteers vital practice in using their newly authorised radio. David Russell It’s out with the birch twigs for me again but thank you for enlightening Lowrance has introduc ever MFD – a 16in addition us all about the new Channel 65. premier-league Carbon Prepare your team for a deluge of which offers the equiv
radio checks! Hugo 7in MFDS in a single
The new unit boas high-definition 1,920x1, A smooth manoeuvre Solarmax display, which
Just read and enjoyed your report on wide viewing angles visibility, even in brigh the Fountaine Pajot MY 44 Powercat. when wearing polaris
Mention was made of potential It almost goes without
nervousness handling a powercat, so I nowadays, that a f boasts a multitouch thought you might like to hear about our touchscreen contr
experience of handling our 60ft Horizon it’s backed up with
Powercat in Palm Cay Marina in the adequate push-butt button control Bahamas. My wife Barbara and I needed cumbersome
to turn our boat around and head to sea offers far mor far fewer accidentalto start our run back to the US. The marina trying to operat is more used to 40ft monohulls and the a moving bo turning space was only a few feet longer than our corner-to-corner length of around 65ft with the additional 'interest' of wind and swell coming in from the sea, plus a good crowd waiting to savour the noise of crunching GRP on concrete, so no pressure! Except for a couple of short squirts with the bow thruster, the manoeuvre was accomplished with the engines alone – not too difficult with such a wide space between the props. Alec Hammond Thank you, Alec, and nicely done! Having had my first experience of handling a 50ft powercat on a recent Moorings charter in Corfu, I have to agree. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to manoeuvre in tight spaces, even without a bow thruster, although the conditions were rather more benign! Hugo