{"id":13614,"date":"2011-01-18T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2011-01-18T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:31:44","slug":"enhancing-visibility-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/enhancing-visibility-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Visibility At Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Masthead-visibility-100.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Masthead-visibility-100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Masthead-visibility-100.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sobering fact: you are going to be almost invisible to ships in any sort of breeze. A yacht is just too small to stand out in the waves and their white caps. Radar return, even with a radar reflector, is also hard to pick out of sea clutter. The one thing you can do is do paint the \u00a0upper portion of the mast.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Masthead-visibility-101.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Masthead-visibility-101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Masthead-visibility-101.jpg\" width=\"551\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even better than paint \u00a0is reflecting tape, like the 3M product we have on <em>Wind Horse&#8217;s<\/em> booms. The red stands out and being high above the waves has a better chance of being seen.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t count on them seeing you. \u00a0Keep watch, and stay out of the way of the big guys. And think about an AIS transponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sobering fact: you are going to be almost invisible to ships in any sort of breeze. A yacht is just <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/enhancing-visibility-at-sea\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}