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GREY LADY OPERATING MANUAL
NW Explorations
VHF Radios
The VHF radio control is located to the right of the helm
in easy reach from the helm seat. The radio is designed
for easy access to Channel 16 which is the hailing and
emergency channel in the Northwest. Other buttons allow
you to select different channels, weather channels, high
and low power, and US/International operation. Your
checkout skipper and/or the radios’ own instructions will
quickly familiarize you with basic operation.
Radar
The boat is equipped with a Garmin display which can overlay on the chart plotter. The unit is used, combined with
the electronic chart unit, for operation in restricted visibility, with the radar primarily serving as a device for
collision
avoidance
while the chart unit provides
position
.
Proper and safe use of a ship’s radar requires lots of practice and careful study. While you are using the boat, you can
have the radar on as much as you like to get used to the way it displays images, but for detailed operating instructions
we refer you to the radar’s own complete manual.
Note that charterer’s insurance does not permit operation of the vessel in restricted visibility.
You should confine your
use of the radar to familiarization and training only in weather with good visibility.
GPS Electronic Charting and AIS System
The boat is equipped with Garmin software-equipped Electronic Charting System.
To operate the system:
1. Turn on the Nav Electronics/ Bridge/ Network breakers
2. Turn on the Garmin chart Plotter at the helm with red button upper right corner.
3. Turn on the Garmin auto pilot with the red button.
4. Turn on the Garmin depth finder with the button in lower right corner.
Follow the instructions on the screen and in the manuals kept at the Pilothouse helm station.
The electronic charting system is not a substitute for careful study of traditional paper charts.
You are required by
maritime law and your insurance coverage to use your paper charts for navigation information, especially since electronic
chart technology does not always permit full cartographic details to show. The Electronic charts are for convenience only!
Depth & Speed Indicators
There are two depth sounder systems, showing depths
BELOW THE KEEL
. One unit on the
Garmin chart plotter, another with a display to the right of the chart plotter. For details,
see their manuals behind the helm cabinet.
Because our waters are sometimes very deep, the depth sounders will not display or will
stay on a high depth reading when the water’s depth is beyond its capacity. They are
operated with their own off-on switches.
Remember when backing up, or crossing a “tide line”, that turbulent water from the tides,
boat’s screws or another boat can interrupt the sounding information received by the
unit. Be careful!
Note: Northwest waters are rocky and depths change rapidly. You should be especially careful to study your charts, and
then check them often whenever running in lesser depths, so that you don’t hit a rock! Just as our islands “pop up” to
heights of 50, 100, or even thousands of feet in a very small distance, so do rocky obstacles!
VHF speaker
VHF radio
Second depth finder to
the right of the helm
