Maverick Martin

Wishing you a very happy birthday Alfie

Now I know what you were on about at the meeting Trev lol

Happy Birthday Pete

Sorry we can't make this one

Happy birthday Steve

Wishing you a very happy birthday Mal, hope you haven't been working and that you have had a great day

Wishing you the very best of birthdays Stuie

Belated birthday wishes to both Andy's

Done, let me know if you want a different title or moved elsewhere

But how far were you out? they do not necessarily have the radar systems at full power constantly and definitively not when near to port/shore

It has but only for a few short hours lol The story was that we were fishing a mark called the rips which are about 26 miles out from Poole. We had got there ok with all our electrics working normally however the weather suddenly deteriorated so we decided to about turn and make our way back. At this time our plotter X2 went down and left us with a totally blank screen we also couldn't use the auto pilot. I didn't have a clue what was wrong. Checked connections which were ok, checked trips which were ok and being electrically illiterate at that point I gave up and made a heading at 150 knowing we would hit land and find our way back. Looking around we spotted a naval ship in the distance, it came, it went. After it had gone 3 or 4 miles all our electrics came back to life and back to normal. I can only assume that the amount of power their radar emits blanked out our electrics.

That said don't get in the immediate vicinity of a man of war when they are using their radar on full power, I could tell a little story about that but I have had a couple of glasses of wine

Trevor just buy one, here is an exert from an online site discussing pleasure boat radars Boat radars are not dangerous; they don’t pose any threat to humans because they emit non-ionizing radiation, which doesn’t penetrate the human body. Radiofrequency fields above 10 GHz at power densities over 1000 W/m^2 are a risk; but, those numbers are “far away” for a normal radar most boats use.

Belated birthday wishes Pete @Kingstonpete

Madness will be out Saturday with Dean and I