Season's Greetings Terry,
 TS> Is Canada making noises about discontinuing publication of paper
 TS> charts as the US is doing?  There's talk of needing a navigational
 TS> computer to find references even on small craft.
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        Canadians NEVER make noise! :)  I don't mind electronic
        charts, but what will we run them on?  Computers?  My
        notebook's batteries last for 2-3 hours during which time,
        it'll freeze or do something strange at some point... just
        enough time to go far out and get lost!
 AH> and the fairway bouy.  Although I think lighthouses usually have an
 AH> isophase or occulting light.
 TS> "Coven rituals ahead".  
 TS> You mean occluded light?
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        He-he-he, I better not make that mistake over channel 16
        or they'll send out the X-Files to do a SAR! 
 TS> The state of CT is in the midst of a 5 year phase in of boat operator
 TS> licenses. They claim it's to help control drinking and accidents,
 TS> though it appears to have a lot to do with raising revenue.
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        Hmm... it would be less of a hassle if they would just
        show up at our door and take the cash.  Instead, they
        make us do paper work!
 AH>         Ha,ha,ha,  they are country specific (far as I know) to the U.S.
 AH> White with red top means "safe water to the South West, and white with
 AH> green or black top means, "safe water to the North East"
 TS> Those sound not just country specific, but regional.  You don't find
 TS> them around the Northeast that I've seen.
 TS> Hmmm....  Are they listed in Chapmans?
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        Don't know, but they are listed in a certain Power Squadron
        Certification series type video.
 TS> Do you think that our Feds will remove the intentional errors from GPS
 TS> any time soon, so that its local repeatability finding coastal
 TS> references won't be so much lower than LORAN previously set way points?
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        Only when they're satisfied that we sailors don't really
        pose such a big threat to the military after all! 
        Cheers,
                Augustin~~~
... The last thing I saw was this Big Blue Wave!
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