Inlet Navigation Safety Tips
June 6, 2025
Inlets can be tricky. Here’s some expert advice to help you avoid a harrowing tale.
Inlets can be tricky. Here’s some expert advice to help you avoid a harrowing tale.
After a father and his two young sons were forced to abandon ship, a simple personal locator beacon was the piece of equipment that saved their lives.
Auto-routing can be the quickest, easiest way to get into trouble. Learn more here.
There’s a shocking lack of VHF traffic out there. We investigate.
Focus on what’s really important, the safety of you and your family on your boat. You may be surprised to learn how radar fits into the equation. Get the whole story here.
Vesper Marine has added new functionality to its black-box XB-8000 AIS transponder. The system adds a layer of safety through active alarms that monitor potential collision threats and alert the user. According to Vesper Marine, smartAIS uses navigation-sensor, GPS, and AIS data to prioritize alerts.
Anglers will flock to the bird mode feature, in which birds are readily marked without tuning the unit, and then tracked simply with an echo trails feature.
Deputy Editor Jason Y. Wood checks out the new Garmin Phantom Radar.
Be smart about the way you manage your helm for top performance and long life.
Vesper Marine explores innovative ways to use AIS and employ the powerful warning and messaging capabilities embedded in the system. The company just launched a project to mark a no-anchor zone over some seabed power cables and we saw it in action.
How Vesper Marine is using AIS to create virtual buoys to protect power cables for the New York Power Authority in the Long Island Sound.
The McMurdo SmartFind M5 AIS Class A is a transponder that provides name and navigation data from other vessels and can be integrated with a variety of chartplotters and networked systems, including a PC system using the PC AIS viewer included with the unit.
AIS is a powerful system for helping boats avoid collisions, but that’s just scratching the surface of its capability. Case in point: A smart virtual buoy system coming online soon that will protect power lines on the seabed of Long Island Sound.
Our review of the Standard Horizon HX870 GPS-Integrated Handheld VHF.
Pyrotechnic flares have been a Coast Guard requirement for decades for one simple reason: they work. At night—and even during the daytime—light and smoke from a pyrotechnic are visible from miles away. But traditional flares have limitations.
Inlets can be tricky. Here’s some expert advice to help you avoid a harrowing tale.
After a father and his two young sons were forced to abandon ship, a simple personal locator beacon was the piece of equipment that saved their lives.
Auto-routing can be the quickest, easiest way to get into trouble. Learn more here.
There’s a shocking lack of VHF traffic out there. We investigate.
Focus on what’s really important, the safety of you and your family on your boat. You may be surprised to learn how radar fits into the equation. Get the whole story here.
Vesper Marine has added new functionality to its black-box XB-8000 AIS transponder. The system adds a layer of safety through active alarms that monitor potential collision threats and alert the user. According to Vesper Marine, smartAIS uses navigation-sensor, GPS, and AIS data to prioritize alerts.
Anglers will flock to the bird mode feature, in which birds are readily marked without tuning the unit, and then tracked simply with an echo trails feature.
Deputy Editor Jason Y. Wood checks out the new Garmin Phantom Radar.
Be smart about the way you manage your helm for top performance and long life.
Vesper Marine explores innovative ways to use AIS and employ the powerful warning and messaging capabilities embedded in the system. The company just launched a project to mark a no-anchor zone over some seabed power cables and we saw it in action.
How Vesper Marine is using AIS to create virtual buoys to protect power cables for the New York Power Authority in the Long Island Sound.
The McMurdo SmartFind M5 AIS Class A is a transponder that provides name and navigation data from other vessels and can be integrated with a variety of chartplotters and networked systems, including a PC system using the PC AIS viewer included with the unit.
AIS is a powerful system for helping boats avoid collisions, but that’s just scratching the surface of its capability. Case in point: A smart virtual buoy system coming online soon that will protect power lines on the seabed of Long Island Sound.
Our review of the Standard Horizon HX870 GPS-Integrated Handheld VHF.
Pyrotechnic flares have been a Coast Guard requirement for decades for one simple reason: they work. At night—and even during the daytime—light and smoke from a pyrotechnic are visible from miles away. But traditional flares have limitations.
