Robski97
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Gary beat me to it ... When u can SMELL the lightening ... GOOD JOB getting everyone home safe.... That sat weather for my GPS is the best money I ever spent!!!!
Rob
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It only gets scary when the cabinet doors start breaking...
Or the bilge pump floats start "floating" from being tossed around...
or when you can "smell" the lightning...
Or the hail is hitting the eisenglass so hard it leaves indentations in it....
Seriously, i have not been hit or caught in bad stuff since I bought my XM weather equipment. I got tired of being on the Chesapeake Bay and being part of the afternoon "fun". It seemed before I bought the XM equipment, it was an annual thing to get my clock cleaned by a storm.
The XM weather looks pretty slick.
I have the Garmin. Does it just overlay the Weather Doppler over the Nav screen?
It does an overlay. It also shows vectors of where the storms/cells are heading and gives their speed.
I don't have a Garmin but have a software package called WxWorx ( http://www.wxworx.com/ ) and run it on the bridge computer but you could also run it on a laptop if you don't have a chartplotter that supports Sirius or XM weather.
The XM weather looks pretty slick.
I have the Garmin. Does it just overlay the Weather Doppler over the Nav screen?
Any tips on tuning the radar to perform a little better? I had a radar whiteout even at 1/4 mile range. One a different point, the boat handled wonderfully. Our guests were a little tense however but I did my best to keep them feeling like we were ok.
Brian
Assuming that you have a Raymarine, there are three controls. Gain, rain clutter, and FTC (Fast Time Constant.) There are no hard and fast rules to adjusting these. I usually start with auto gain, then bring in a little rain decluttering and FTC until I start getting an image, then adjust gain and go back to playing with FTC and rain. The manual has more details. It's more art than science.
Best regards,
Frank C
Turtle glad you made it OK.
We were on our way to Block Island and stayed on a gas dock instead of going through it.
Hope you didnt scare the GF out of boating.
Cheers,
Mark.
.........I spent a few hours practicing cruising in following seas. Any tips or advice is welcome. To me, it felt more comfortable going faster than the seas rather than slower. But maybe I just doing it wrong.