T&T: AIS info

[Jeffrey Siegel]

AIS is completely worthless...
    ...except when it's the best navigation tool available

AIS is the best navigation tool ever created...
    ...except when it's worthless


These kinds of statements are so typical of anything on the left side  
of the data-infomation-knowledge-wisdom chain.  AIS is very good at  
producing data.  Matched with a chartplotter, it can even give some  
basic information.  What we really want at our helm is knowledge and  
an understanding of our environment to allow us humans to make better  
decisions.  Perhaps we gain and share wisdom when we're done boating  
and relay our experiences across T&T.

In the end, I guess I'd rather have AIS and decide at times to turn it  
off than to be out somewhere wishing that I had it.


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Jeffrey Siegel
M/V aCappella
DeFever 53RPH
W1ACA/WDB4350
Castine, Maine

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