Do You Carry Survival Suits?

by John May 19, 2007
A marine survival (immersion) suit.

Question: Do you carry survival suits and do you do anything special for working in the dinghy? I’ve seen ice suits, and all sorts of combo work/survival suits and we are wondering if we should carry something similar for the wilder areas?

What Life Raft Do You Have On Morgan’s Cloud?

by John April 19, 2008
An inflated RFD Beaufort 6-person commercial SOLAS liferaft.

Question: What sort of life raft do you have on Morgan’s Cloud?

Portland Pudgy Tender And Liferaft Combo

by John September 19, 2009
Person in Portland Pudgy as a liferaft.

Question: What are your views on the Portland Pudgy as a “proactive” life raft?

Q&A Radar Reflectors and/or AIS Transponders

by John May 3, 2011
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Question [Edited for brevity]: We have been upgrading the safety equipment on board our boat and are thinking of installing radar reflectors to amplify and enhance the radar signal we create to alerting oncoming vessels of our position during offshore sailing in bad weather and heavy seas. The Echomax Active-XS-Dual Band reflector seems very good, [...]