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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 19:50:30 EDT
"Robert Gainer" writes:
> I understand that not all people will do
> it the
> same way and that’s what makes the world so interesting but “not
> swift”
> gives the whole post a bad feel.
Given an up to date chart and a GPS to maintain a DR plot, you basically
get the best of both worlds.
Trying to use antique outdated navigation equipment to achieve inferior
navigation results comes under the heading of "not swift" in my book.
> I don’t think you are building a modern high tech boat.
You are right, it is just your basic Roberts 55 built with knitted glass,
epoxy and an Airex core for the hull, Divinycell for the deck core.
It is your basic plain vanilla boat.
> Some boats
> today are
> highly engineered and built from composite materials.
I guess I could add some Kevlar some place and claim a Kevlar boat;
however, since trying unsuccessfully trying to shoot holes thru a test
section of the hull sandwich with copper jacketed projectiles from a .357
magnum, I'll just settle for "Home of the bullet proof boat".
> I have a
> background in
> marine engineering and some of today’s techniques are simply
> mind-boggling.
Refrigerated prepregs and vacuum bagging can make some nifty stuff, but
the equipment investment to do that is not being made by custom one off
builders, at least not around here.
> Not my choice of boat, but they have to be repaired and that’s where
> I come
> in. Please don't use snot to repair one.
If my epoxy formulator can refer to his stuff as a "bucket of snot", it
works for me.
> I hope you are never in a storm with winds greater then 80 knots and
> feel
> the need to “put a new unit in service”.
Putting myself in the middle of a hurricane would come under the heading
of "Not Bright".
Trust me, my mom only had one boy child. Not very bright, but not an
idiot either.
> I think that’s true, but then why do you want more complications
> instead of
> my system with less.
Think you are looking at it backwards.
A $100 GPS, a paper chart and a pencil.
Pretty tough to get more simple than that.
Doesn't drink beer, doesn't complain, doesn't get sick
Pretty nifty arrangement if you ask me.
SFWIW, a few years ago, went out and bought a plastic sextant, took it
down to the swimming pool, read the directions and shot a sight.
Did the math, found I was within 10 miles of the pool.
As far as I was concerned, good enough for atom bombs and sextant sights.
Put it back in the box and haven't looked at it since.
Lew
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