Listening to Captain Brandenburg's talk on his ideas about the future navaids in Rotterdam (this Journal, 25, 67) I was left with the conviction that even the most ardent opponents of change will at least be better informed having heard it. Although in his introduction he excluded direct reference to Rotterdam, it is well known that the new Auto Com/Radar Data system when introduced there will be a real milestone for historians of port entrance techniques. I would like to think that it will lead us in this country one step closer to the day when we take the option out of progress on our own coasts and waterways and get on with it as they are doing in Rotterdam. There is of course one great difference—in Holland and Germany the Governments and Municipalities are involved, so that the necessary finances are seen in a clearer light.