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From: Dick Maddock (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 16:10:00 EST
A GPS and an accurate chart would be an awe inspiring
dream to sailors of old. They certainly will do in
place of charting software.
The only reservation would be to have two GPS units,
one as a backup, and enough batteries to power them
forever.
--- scylla34208 <> wrote:
> If I were setting out today I would just have a GPS,
> and plot my
> position on paper charts. Since my voyaging days
> were mostly
> in the '60s, my electronic navigation was limited to
> RDF which,
> ouside the US, meant pretty much the AM broadcast
> band. We
> used it approaching Bermuda, and crossed a (Colon)
> Panama
> station with Bonaire when approaching the P. Canal
> in poor
> visibility. Otherwise navigation was DR and
> celestial.
>
> A GPS would have eased the worry on several
> occasions when
> rough sea conditions made for large triangles (my
> destinations
> were almost always lee shore type, sailing westward
> in the
> tropics), and if you are cruising in areas that tend
> to be overcast
> or foggy a lot, the availability of GPS is a great
> advantage.
>
> Fred
>
>
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