Next message: Richard Goodwin: "Re: lv-ab: GPS-->Notebook: Navigation Software"
Quoting Wally <>:
> Here, you keep a lookout - a close lookout - and you
> make absolutely certain at all times that you know
> where you are...exactly where you are...and you
> discover that by looking outside of the boat, not at a
> GPS or chartplotter or computer screen.
REPLY
Just a bit north of the Minnicognashene channel there is a river leading up to
a picturesque water fall.
Plenty of deep water all the way up, 20 feet or so and its about 150 feet wide
Except for a house sized square rock right in the middel of the channel.
The multi coloured streaks of bottom paint attest to the number of boaters who
assumed the center of the channel is safe. they didn't read the chart.
Mind you the scale is 1:20,000 so the rock is simply a dot. Ooohh!!
But on an electronic chart zoomed all the way in, the gap between the dot
representing the rock and shore line looks plenty wide because the boat icon
is "relatively" small and fits easily on the screen.
Cheers
Arild
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