The Eyes Have It
Jun 11, 2019
3 minutes
BY CHARLES J. DOANE
Back when I first started ocean sailing, the most routinely challenging part of standing a watch was just keeping track of vessel traffic. If you didn’t have radar or couldn’t run it 24/7—as was and still is the case on most modest cruising sailboats—it could be downright nerve-wracking.
Working with your eyes only, the time you have between first sighting a large commercial vessel on the horizon
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