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... GPS is a great tool... but if you need it while sailing less than
25 miles from your home point.... isn't that kinda like coloring
> inside the lines all the time...maybe it would be better just to
watch a movie about sailing.
Reply...
I don't think anybody said anything about NEEDING GPS, just that it
makes the workload less. Or needing A/C or any of the other items we
mentioned but they make it more enjoyable. I do not know about your
cruising area, but here we pay very close attention to the depth
sounder...to NOT do so would be foolhardy. One of my dpeth sounders
is integrated into my GPS chartplotter, thus it is on. Even if it
were not integrated, it would be on. many a night I have come back in
on a moonless night where a dayshape cannot be seen until you are on
top of it. Chartplotter assists in keeping me in the channel. I turn
the chartplotter on as a matter of habit before leaving the dock. Two
reasons for that...one is that it is readily available for those crew
that do not have navigation skills help in piloting the boat. Second
is I personally feel it is an aid to navigation. Colregs state that
ALL onboard means will be utilized to reduce collision at sea. By the
same thinking, my VHFs (yes, two) are always on. Again, COLREGs
dictates that if onboard and operational it WILL be on and monitored.
Why two? second is so I can monitor second channel for bridges etc...
To imply that because I live on my boat it is equivalent to a low
priced, cramped, water born version of a trailer shows the utmost
disregard for alternative lifestyles. I make a very good wage and
CHOOSE to live where I do. I will grant you that I probably do not
sail as much as some others. I only average twice a month. And yes,
it does take me a full half hour to make ready for sea but I see that
as a very small penalty for being able to live on the water.
This is a world cruising list, not a sailing list and I feel that my
boat is very well set up for world cruising. She has already spent
more that 20 years and 40,000 nm away from US home ports. But, as
much as I already have, I will add some more "essential" items before
I head out (5-7 years). Top on that list is SSB and/or Satphone. Not
so much to receive a daily dose of email and touchy feely voice
contact, but to call out for assistance in case of emergency. Mine or
others...
Joel Wilkins
s/v Miss Magoo
Columbia 45
