{"id":515,"date":"2016-04-18T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2016-04-18T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:20:08","slug":"515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/515\/","title":{"rendered":"Fog – MRASS Means Safer Navigation for ALL Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So here you are, searching for the point in the fog.\u00a0 No radar, and GPS these days can be a little iffy.\u00a0 You would rather not hit the reef off the point, or, the breakwater\/jetty where the harbor is hidden behind that point.\u00a0 You’re blowing the your horn and\/or ringing the bell as required.\u00a0 And going just fast enough to be able to dodge the usual idiot doing 20 knots when five is borderline.<\/p>\n

And the foghorn on the point isn’t blowing.\u00a0 Because it’s fog-activated, and the sensors may be above the fog, and the system has never been particularly reliable.\u00a0 Hence, you and others who rely on that sound to determine the direction of a critical navigation point may wind up in a difficult situation.<\/p>\n

We now have the Mariner Radio Activated\u00a0 Sound System (MRASS).\u00a0 Many of the horns in foggy areas, such as New England, Great Lakes and the California Coast, have been updated with the new system, which allows boaters to activate the foghorns themselves using their VHF radios.\u00a0 You can read the Local Notices to Mariners <\/a>online to see which local horns have been equipped.<\/p>\n

The chart details shown below are examples of newer chart\/GPS\/Plotter updates, calling out the MRASS-equipped horns.<\/p>\n

Go on your VHF radio (it is either channel 81A or 83A) and click the transmit key five times in a row.\u00a0 The horn will activate for 30 minutes.\u00a0 It works, and it can be real life saver.\u00a0 I’ve tried it outside Marina Del Rey, and it works.<\/p>\n

Just another reason to love the Coasties.<\/p>\n

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Chart Detail with MRASS shown – Marina del Rey entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Note the MRASS callout on the breakwater horn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tweet So here you are, searching for the point in the fog.\u00a0 No radar, and GPS these days can be a little iffy.\u00a0 You would rather not hit the reef off the point, or, the breakwater\/jetty where the harbor is hidden behind that point.\u00a0 You’re blowing the your horn and\/or ringing the bell as required.\u00a0… Read more: Fog – MRASS Means Safer Navigation for ALL Boats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[112,111,52,113,94],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-content","tag-fog-navigation","tag-foghorn","tag-forespar","tag-mrass","tag-navigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}