Of note, personally, I never fully trusted any of the the weather routing services my company subscribed to when it came to avoiding hurricanes. And I don’t want the USCG mandate the use of weather routing services.
The two things I would like to see are:
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A log of historical performance for all weather routing services – I never fully trusted any of the weather routing services we used because none of them were willing to show me a chart of historical predictions vs storm tracks (NOAA does provide this information!)
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I’d like to see masters start talking to each other when storms arrive. Often the guy going the wrong way is missing a piece of critical information or knowledge… and - from what I’ve seen - the Masters who choose the optimal routes consistently are also the Masters who are most willing to pick up the phone and call other nearby ships.