{"id":23471,"date":"2015-08-06T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:19:45","slug":"how-do-you-feel-about-virtual-navigation-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/08\/how-do-you-feel-about-virtual-navigation-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Feel About Virtual Navigation Aids?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For recreational boaters, the waterway signposts known as aids to navigation are critical for a safe journey. But what if an aid to navigation (ATON) such as a floating buoy marking the edge a deep-water channel could only be seen on an electronic screen and not by the naked eye? Will recreational boaters benefit from these new \u201ceATONs\u201d? That\u2019s the question the US Coast Guard wants to find out with a 25-question online survey at www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/21stCenturyWaterways<\/a>. A full look at the issue is found in the August\/September issue of BoatUS Magazine at BoatUS.com\/virtualnavigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On March 12, 2014 the USCG began operating 25 fully functioning \u201cvirtual\u201d and \u201csynthetic\u201d eATONs in San Francisco waters with a goal to improved safety and efficiency. Some of these electronic waterway signposts mark the ship-traffic lanes outside the Golden Gate Bridge. The eATONs are only \u201cvisible\u201d to vessels equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology that\u2019s currently found on large commercial vessels and a small portion of recreational boats.<\/p>\n

Said BoatUS President Margaret Podlich, \u201cAlthough the US Coast Guard recently had 12 public listening sessions, recreational boaters did not attend in large numbers. As a result, the agency now has an online survey to capture our viewpoints, and it\u2019s in every boater\u2019s interest to speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike commercial vessels, recreational boats are much less likely to have sophisticated electronics needed to access some of the newer proposed systems, such as virtual buoys projected on electronic charts,\u201d said Podlich in testimony to the US House of Representatives subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. \u201dThere\u2019s still a significant need for the tried-and-true physical ATONs in areas where boaters operate, such shallow-draft harbors and channels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boaters are encouraged to take the short survey before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For recreational boaters, the waterway signposts known as aids to navigation are critical for a safe journey. But what if an aid to navigation (ATON) such as a floating buoy marking the edge a deep-water channel could only be seen on an electronic screen and not by the naked eye? Will recreational boaters benefit from these new \u201ceATONs\u201d? That\u2019s the question the US Coast Guard wants to find out with a 25-question online survey at www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/21stCenturyWaterways. A full look at the issue is found in the August\/September issue of BoatUS Magazine at BoatUS.com\/virtualnavigation. On March 12, 2014 the USCG began operating 25 fully functioning \u201cvirtual\u201d and \u201csynthetic\u201d eATONs in San Francisco waters with a goal to improved safety and efficiency. Some of these electronic waterway signposts mark the ship-traffic lanes outside the Golden Gate Bridge. The eATONs are only \u201cvisible\u201d to vessels equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology that\u2019s currently found on large commercial vessels and a small portion of recreational boats. Said BoatUS President Margaret Podlich, \u201cAlthough the US Coast Guard recently had 12 public listening sessions, recreational boaters did not attend in large numbers. As a result, the agency now has an online survey to capture our …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23473,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions\/23473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}