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From: Norm of Bandersnatch (no email)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2007 - 11:44:12 EST
I agree.
All my traveling offshore or near shore is pre-planned and entered as a
Route in my GPS, (and saved as a file).
I also make note of the shallowest point along the route and set my
depthfinder alarm for a bit short of that.
Having all the navigation done before we weigh anchor leaves us to
concentrate on collision avoidance and enjoying the ride.
We have rarely made use of harbors of refuge but when we did it was a bit
of a scramble to get and upload the waypoints. It would have been better
to have at least the main waypoints to the secondary anchorage already
entered in the GPS and then we could manually do a GOTO to each waypoint.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying 30 07.715N 081 38.394W
Julington Creek Estuary FL
> As well, since it isn't easy to work navigation issues
> while driving the boat, do all your trip planning the
> day before, and have waypoints set for fallback
> positions
> - for example, you can't make your day's anchorage or
> a storm comes up unexpectedly. You can't take time to
> stare at charts and figure out what to do. But if
> you've noted anchorages and other important items
> beforehand, if problems arise, you can easily and
> simply alter your plans. I always have two anchorages
> picked out - my goal and another, closer one if for
> some reason I can't reach the goal. Then, it's simply
> a matter of changing my mind, not deciding what I need
> to do next.
>
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