GPS Marine Chart Basics with the GPSMAP 5208
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Coast Guard bringing new response boat up to speed
Strand Guard Station Juneau’s newest asset for fast, efficient response is making an depression on those who get to be part of its crew. The 45-foot Response Boat-Medium (RB-M) arrived on July 20 and Station Juneau ‘Coasties’ are slowly being brought up to promptness on all it can do.
“It is really responsive,” CGSJ executive petty officer BM-1 Philip Ketcheson said as he piloted the craft into Gastineau Channel on Friday. “Just barely moving the nozzle and the boat really minds what you be deficient in to do.”
The RB-M is replacing the aging fleet of 41-foot utility and 47-foot motor life boats with improvements in dispatch, crew efficiency and operational availability.
“It is the easiest boat I have ever driven,” CG Station Juneau operations Small-minded Officer First Class Joseph Baxter said from the adjacent pilot’s chair.
Ideally situated for a gang of four, the pilothouse has two shock-mitigating seating stations fore and aft, providing for greater comfort and endurance. The two shepherd stations have computer screens that feature real-time navigational charts and chart plotters with automated vessel tracking systems, head looking infrared radar and the ability to monitor deck movements.
How to view nautical charts with .BSB format.?
I downloaded to my computer charts from the NOAA website, but I am not aware of this software must be used to open them. Any help?
Distributes NOAA raster charts (RNC) for uncommitted on the Internet aster http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/R / index.htm. The RNC as. BSB and are updated weekly communication neighborhood browsers.
Review the installation ... NOW If you can get these files in. PDF, download the information and get the files. Otherwise, call the NOAA and make the suggestion of. Pdf format.
