Before reading on, please pause for a moment to take this week’s survey so we can share the results with the Cruising Compass family.
What do you consider to be the “essential knots: aboard a cruising boat?
Thanks to all readers who filled out last week’s survey on emergency signaling devices you carry on board your boat. Here are the 16 devices in order of their frequency of being carries:
- VHF, 2. cell phone, 3. flares, 4. spot light, 5. air horn, 6. signal mirror, 7. EPIRB, 8. strobe light, 9. signal flags, 10. HF radio (SSB/Ham), 11.persoanl locator beacons, 12. Sat Comms (Iridium Go, etc), 13. dye markers, 14. Sat phone. 15. Laser pen, 16. signal kite
