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Originally Posted by sailingdog
I think it is an all too common mistake to think that the icon on the screen of your chartplotter has anything to do with the reality of where your sailboat is. It doesn't. Using it as the sole navigation device is a bad idea.  The icon on the chartplotter is an approximate representation of where electronic satellites are telling this black box where your boat is, set against an interpretation of reality by a cartographer who may or may not have been stoned while creating the chart, based on data that may be 100 years out of date. YMMV. |
Amen brother....had a big head slapping moment there when I realized.. Ooooh *THAT'S* what that Giant circle means around the little triangle when I'm zoomed all the way in...heh
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