> Safety features for Apple's 2'500 Miles crossing into the Northern
> hemisphere in May..
>
> Communication:
>
> 1: Satellite phone communication 24-7 world wide..
> 2: SSB, this is a single side band radio, with unlimited coverage,
> this can be used as a phone, radio transmitter & receiver, can send
> e-mail (text only)
> 3: VHS radio, limited to 50 miles radius
>
> Weather:
>
> I'm employing a Pro-weather router from Hawaii ( "The weather Man" )
> He'll advise us on the perfect time to begin our crossing, we'll
> send him a daily position & he'll send us daily weather warning, any
> developing weather systems etc... which we'll receive via Sat phone
> & SSB..
>
> Special Safety features.. ...
>
> 1: Eperb this is absolute state of the art technology... In the most
> unlikely event that should anything happen to our yacht. It will
> self-deploy & automatically - via satellite send-out our position
> with distress call to every merchant, coast guard, Navy ship. It
> will also contact main land America where "Apple" is registered "
> which means is the USA Navy is responsibility pick us up..
>
> 2: Top of the range "Windslow" 6 man fully enclosed "OFF SHORE"
> life-raft with double floor & hand controlled frech water maker,
> inside (unheard of by most boaters)
>
> 3: Sat-phone & SSB pre tuned to the distress channels.
>
> 4: New- emergency Rudder, Spare Tiller, ..
>
> 5: All the standard distress stuff like flare, rockets, strobes,
> lifejackets, Jack-lines & harnessing -..blah blah.. Plus second
> inflatable Mercury tender & Yamaha outboard
>
> Navigation:
>
> 1: 2 X E80 Ray-marine chart plotters with digital charts including GPS
> 2: Back up GPS
> 3: Paper charts
> 4: Radar with a special feature called ASI which give a the
> position, heading of all shipping around us, & allow me to create 3
> x separate safety zones around "Apple" basically nothing that come
> within say 12, 8 , 4 miles of us... If a ship dose, we'll get a
> warning alarm..& the ASI will tell us who the captain is & where
> he's going plus his call sign..
>
