Recent content by koenig

My pet peeve is jetski's or waverunners doing their "tricks" around the dock when your in a free board challenged vessel. Those people don't seem to understand no wake zones or common courtesy around docks.

For my work we are researching a project in the Dominican Republic. I plan to live aboard and cruise the other places on my off time. I'm already selling my Canadian house and don't have any other assets in this country. A friend pointed out that no resident ties to Canada, your a non-resident...

I'm going by a conversation while on the bridge of a modern large passenger ferry. The main point of that test is how fast the crew could switch to old fashioned methods of navigation. I'll concede that people are overly reliant on new technology.

The thing is not one industry listed are solely reliant on GPS. The article mentions how jamming GPS could cause ships to hit rocks. Yes, if GPS was the sole tool used. But its not, even on the most advanced ships. The smart book and theory experts obviously did not go out in the real world to...

This is a good example of some over educated "smart" person not really thinking for the real world. Book smarts vs street and no real world experience. I work in mining. We use gps to mark our drilling locations. Similar to oil exploration. Like that industry that technology is not our only aid...

Grew up (debatable) in Both Canada (British spelling) and America. American teachers would except either, but I became Americanized. A Canadian English teacher did complain about it.

Short answer is yes for me and considering doing the boat as well. Canada has a boat operator license for all powered craft. So our marine law enforcement tends to random check boats for safety and operator licenses. Its better to be 100%legal when dealing with officials. You don't need a...

The last boat would sometimes get caught after dark on way home. Marina that we kept our boat at times has commercial salmon fishing and avoiding their gill nets can be fun. Did run over nets twice, both times it was rough weather so couldn't see the buoy markers.