{"id":16742,"date":"2011-07-13T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=16742"},"modified":"2011-07-12T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T14:05:08","slug":"enhancing-visibility-like-the-big-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/enhancing-visibility-like-the-big-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Visibility Like The Big Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Using color for better visibility.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Using-color-for-better-visibility.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Using color for better visibility\" width=\"576\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to being seen by other traffic nothing beats reflective orange. It shows up better than any other color in fog and rain, and is amazing when lit \u00a0up at night. Many ships are so adorned, and the practice makes sense for yachts too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"improving-visibility-offshore-201.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/improving-visibility-offshore-2011.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Improving visibility offshore 201\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By coincidence we photographed these two MSC container ships at different times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"improving-visibility-offshore-202.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/improving-visibility-offshore-202.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Improving visibility offshore 202\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice that both the breakwater forward and bridge are striped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"improving-visibility-offshore-200.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/improving-visibility-offshore-200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Improving visibility offshore 200\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <em>WInd Horse<\/em> we have orange reflecting tape on the mast forward and the boom ends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"improving-visibility-offshore-204.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/improving-visibility-offshore-204.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Improving visibility offshore 204\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also have it on the dinghies. You can buy a 3M product at McMaster Carr and in many large hardware stores. This is the ideal material for the upper \u00a0portion of a sailboat mast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to being seen by other traffic nothing beats reflective orange. It shows up better than any other <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/enhancing-visibility-like-the-big-guys\/\">&#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-16742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742"}],"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=16742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}