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Sending out an SOS
Jun 2011 p100-102  (3.00 pages)
Category: Buyers' Guide / Gear & equipment / Practical / Product tests / Seamanship & safety
Description: Know how: All the answers to the important questions: Flares
Flares are the quickest means of alerting boats that you are in distress so it's essential to know what type to buy and how to use them safely.
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Apr 2004 p48-49  (1.50 pages)
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Category: Buyers' guides
Author: Toby Hodges
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
The best of YM's gear tests: Fixed GPS; Lifebuoy lights; Stabilised binoculars; Fire extinguishers; Boat hooks; Flares. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers' Guide!
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Sep 2004 p130-131  (1.50 pages)
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Category: Buyers' guides
Author: Toby Hodges
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
Products that have come out best in YM's gear tests: Stabilised Binoculars, Flares, Handheld Chart plotters, Handbearing Compasses, Children's Lifejackets and MOB systems. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers's Guide!
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21st century flares
Aug 2009 p96-97  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Gear & equipment / Seamanship & safety
Author: Stewart Campbell
Description: Boats and Equipment
Are distress flares more trouble than their worth? We test a new type of distress signal - the laser beam 'flare'. Stewart Campbell report on a hi-tech signal that costs from £68-215 and will never expire
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What are the dos and don'ts of flares?
Aug 2011 p67  (1.00 pages)
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Category: Gear & equipment / Questions & answers / Seamanship & safety
Author: Mark Turley
Description: Ask the experts... Whatever the question, our panel of specialists will come to your rescue
Guide to flares.
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Know your flares
Aug 2007 p92-93  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Questions & answers / Seamanship & safety
Author: Emrhys Barrell
Description: MBM Guide To
Guide to flares - do you have the right kit?
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Friendly Fire
Dec 2007 p104-108  (5.00 pages)
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Category: Product tests
Author: Chris Beeson
Description: Boats & Equipment
Distress flares: Red and white hand-held flares; Orange floating flares; Parachute rockets
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Essential buyers' guide
Dec 2003 p98-99  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Buyers' guides / Product tests
Author: Toby Hodges
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
Products that have come out best in YM's gear tests: budget chart plotters, fixed GPS, inflatable tenders, two-way radios, stabilised binoculars, fire extinguishers, Musto HPX boots. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers'
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Safety equipment
Apr 2001 p76-77  (1.50 pages)
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Category: Practical / Seamanship & safety
Description: Hands On - Must haves for tidal cruising
Safety on board guide with fire-extinguishers, distress flares, lifejackets, liferaft, first-aid kit and man-overboard kit.
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Fashionable flares
Apr 2003 p61
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Category: Seamanship & safety / Gear & equipment
Author: Robert Avis
Description: Avis at large
Miniflare 3 pocket-sized distress signalling kit from McMurdo Pains-Wessex
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Nov 2003 p98-99  (2.00 pages)
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Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
Musto shoes, Budget radars, DSC radios, Rigid Vangs, Wax. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers' Guide!
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Essential Buyers' Guide
May 2004 p50-51  (1.67 pages)
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Author: Toby Hodges
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyer's Guides reports for:
The best of YM's buyers' guides: Fixed GPS, Fire extinguishers, Flares, Colour chart plotters
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Life-savers or a hazard too far?
Dec 2011 p10-11  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Seamanship & safety
Author: Paul Gelder
Description: News special - Flares
has modern technology made pyrotechnic distress flares redundant? Paul talks to three people who have good reason to think so. 'Modern technbology provides safer and more reliable options for distress alerts,' says the RYA.
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Sep 2003 p120-121  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Buyers' guides
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
Budget chart plotters, Fixed GPS, Budget waterproof binoculars, Lifebuoy lights, Inflatable tenders, Two way radios. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers' Guide!
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Oct 2003 p118-119  (1.50 pages)
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Category: Buyers' guides
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
Budget chart plotters; DSC radios; wire cutters; fixed GPS; budget waterproof binoculars and lifebuoy lights. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers' Guide!
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Flares - do we still need them?
Sep 1997 p33
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Category: Seamanship & safety / Leader
Author: Rodger Witt
Description: Waiting for the Tide
Flares
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Which flares work best?
Nov 1996 p86
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Category: Buyers' guides / Engines
Author: Colin Jarman
Description: Buyer's Guide
Flares
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Feb 2004 p112-113  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Buyers' guides
Author: Toby Hodges
Description: Lists of top performers in recent Buyers' Guides reports for:
Budget chart plotters, Fixed GPS, Stabilised binoculars, Fire extinguishers, Colour chart plotters. For in depth information on each product type, look up relevant Buyers' Guide!
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All bright on the night?
Feb 2004 p58-63  (5.00 pages)
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Category: Buyers' Guide / Product tests
Author: Philip Pond
Description: On Test
Distress flares on test: Comet, Hansson and Pains-Wessex
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Essential Buyers' Guide
Sep 2005 p58-59  (2.00 pages)
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Category: Product tests / Buyers' guides
Author: Toby Hodges
Description: Buyer's guide
Products that have triumphed in recent YM gear tests: MOB systems; Sailing software; Hand-held VHFs; Radar sets; Budget liferafts; Radar reflectors
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Safe use of flares
Apr 2003 p54-55
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Category: Seamanship & safety
Description: Improve Your Skills
Pyrotechnics: different types of flares, minimum requirements, stowage, firing & disposal
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Focus on Flares
Jan 2007 p115-116  (3.00 pages)
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Category: Seamanship & safety
Author: Elaine Bunting
Description: Special Report
How safe are flares and are there any modern alternatives to old-fashioned technology?
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Fool-proof flares?
May 2001 p86-92
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Category: Buyers' guides / Seamanship & safety
Author: Tim Bartlett
Description: Buyer's Guide
Flares: Comet Handheld Red, Ikaros Hand Flare, Red, Pains Wessex Red MK7 Handflare, XM Red Hand Flare, Pains Wessex Pinpoint Handsmoke, Ikaros Orange Handsmoke
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Cut above the rest - Rope-cutters
Sep 2011 p92-96  (4.00 pages)
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Category: Gear & equipment / Gear tests / Practical / Product tests
Author: Peter Caplen
Description: Know how - All the answers to the important questions
An essential prop protector or an unnecessary drag on fuel consumption? We snip through the ins and outs of rope-cutters.
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HELP! AT HAND
May 1995 p118-122
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Category: Seamanship & safety
Author: Paul Mahy
Description: Talking Shop
Distress flares user's guide
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Burning bright - a flare for rescue?
Mar 2004 p46-50  (5.00 pages)
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Category: Buyers' Guide / Product tests
Author: Philip Pond
Description: Group test
Distress flares: Comet, Hansson and Pains-Wessex
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Disposal of out of date flares
Nov 1993 p26
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Category: Seamanship & safety / Leader
Author: George Taylor
Description: Waiting for the Tide
Flares
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DISTRESS AND RESCUE
Mar 1996 p58-59
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Category: Seamanship & safety
Author: Robert Avis
Description: Boatmanship part 12
Strategies for dealing with distress situations (keywords: VHF radio flares buoyant smoke markers position latitude longitude lats longs liferafts helicopter rescue lifeboat rescue Ch 16)
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Hand flares and smoke signals
Jul 2008 p55-59  (5.00 pages)
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Category: Product tests
Author: Alex Bell
Description: Gear Test
Hansson Ikaros red and white hand flares, orange hand smoke signal and buoyant orange smoke; Pains Wessex red and white Mk8 telescopic hand flares, Mk8 orange hand smoke and orange buoyant smoke Mk8; Hansson Ikaros Day-Night Distress Signal; (keywords: Pa
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Checking your safety gear
Aug 2004 p64-66  (5.00 pages)
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Category: Seamanship & safety
Author: Rick Raeburn
Description: Sea Safety & Skippers Checklist Safety Card
Practical reminders for checking sea safety gear: floating & nav lights, liferafts, emergency steering gear, flares, fire extinguishers, MOB equipment (keywords: man overboard)
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Trial by jury - What to look for on a sea trial
Oct 2011 p108-112  (4.00 pages)
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Category: Buyers' Guide / Practical / Practical, maintenance & repair
Author: Dave Marsh
Description: Know how - All the answers to the important questions
After over 14 years testing every type of motor boat for MBY, Dave Marsh gives the rundown of what to look for on your sea trial.
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