GL: Need real-world experience cruising in Canadian waters

[Gregory Han]

Answers below
>
> (1) Do you need a radio-operator's license (as some of the Canada based
> web sites indicate) or can you "get by" without one?

Go ahead and get a Radio telephone operators license. You can get it
on the web. I believe that you only need a ship station license if you
have a SSB not for VHF.


> (3) For internet access, can we purchase an air-card which will work in
> Canada on a Canadian cell phone network or ISP (similar to what we could
> get with Verizon or AT&T in the US)?

Verizon will not work and the Canadian data networks are not as well
developed as US. You can often connect using the verizon card but the
costs are huge and there is no clue that you are being charged until
you get the bill. Be sure to call Verizon and order the North American
plan for voice BEFORE leaving the US and reset the phone as directed.
We used pick up WIFI and otherwise just weaned ourselves from 24/7
internet.

I would buy a wifi antenna/amp like the one from radiolabs. It lets
you pick up wifi from an unbelievable distance.

-- 
Greg and Susan Han
Allegria -- Krogen Whaleback #16