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Publications
by John CollinsBelow are the many publications that our VFC & Marine Safety Officer John Collins has published in local yacht club magazine and other electronic and print publications.
The USCG Auxiliary, the civilian arm of the U.S. Coast Guard is a public service organization dedicated to boating safety and education.
- “Atomic” Waste Buoy
- A Suffix VHF Channels
- AIS Accuracy
- America's Waterway Watch
- Auto Pilots
- Automatic Identification System
- Boating Safety APP
- Boating Safety Circular
- Bridge Lighting and Markings
- Buoys Not Shown
- Buoys That Make Sounds
- Carbon Monoxide
- Carbon Monoxide With Box on Stern
- Cell Phone Limits
- Coast Guard Jurisdiction on Rivers and Lakes
- Coast Pilot
- CPR
- Day Beacon Bowditch Ledge and others
- Day Mark Endeavor Rock
- Day Mark Tom Moore Rock
- Day Marks Repaired
- Day Marks Salem Bay Destroyed
- Do Not Tie Up to Navigation Aids
- Electronic Flares
- EPIRB Battery Replacing
- EPIRB Registration
- Estimating Impairment
- Ethanol in Older Engines
- Engine Cut-Off Switch
- False Distress Calls
- Fire Extinguisher Expiration
- Fish Havens
- Fog Horns
- Future Wind Turbines
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems – Trust, But Verify
- GPS Reliability
- GPS Time Update
- If Found Sticker
- Hypothermia
- Invasive Species Transfer
- Jones Act
- LED Interference with VHF and AIS
- Light List Update
- Lithium Battery Disposal
- LNG
- Local Charts No Longer Updated
- MMSI Numbers
- Natural Gas Pipeline
- New Life Jacket Label
- No Discharge Zones
- No More Paper NOAA Charts
- Offshore Wind Farms
- Personal Locator Beacon (PLB)
- PFD Light Failure
- Port Security
- Potentially Dangerous Smoke Signal
- Prop Walk
- RACONs
- Rescue 21
- Right Whales
- Sailing Vessel Lights
- Sewage Disposal
- Small Boat Detectability
- Solar Panels on Boats
- Star Spangled Buoy
- Surf Stations
- Third Party Documentation
- Traffic Separation Zones
- Trans-Atlantic Cable
- Uncharted Wreck
- Unexploded Ordinance
- VHF Radio Checks
- White and Orange Buoys
- Yellow Buoys