The chart plotters are just another tool in the arsenal of the navigator. To not use one would be as silly as relying completely on one. It sure is nice when the radar paint and the chart overlay match up. Warm and fuzzy!
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
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