What's wrong with this:
Panbo: The Marine Electronics Weblog: Gizmo Wisdom #1, reboot 'er!
...Everything IMHO
Panbo: The Marine Electronics Weblog: Gizmo Wisdom #1, reboot 'er!
...Everything IMHO
IMO you shouldn't have any equipment on your boat you don't fully understand.Well, that ought to clear the waterways!
I'm OK. I like kayaking just fine.
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Actually, I kind of agree with the exception of equipment I'm willing to do without (ie., if my GPS goes out I have other means).
Why not leave it on all the time? Surely the safety aspect of a continuously updated position is worth the cost of a couple of AA batteries?. My gps is a hand held that uses AA batts. I turn it on a couple of times a day to check my D.R.'s.
GaryIt never ceases to amaze me how many individuals pooh-pooh advancements in navigation, something that has likely happened since the invention of the compass.
Gary
I think thats a load of bollocks. (Thats my fav word of the day. But just today)I think all skippers should be confident navigating traditionally.
Most of the time is accurate but you have to know that sometimes isn't and if you have a over confidence on that accuracy you can get in real trouble. It had happened to me several times, not to be in trouble, but the accuracy being very poor, not to say misleading....
The depths on the GPS plotter, and the locations of the very shallow shoal areas were extremely accurate. When the chart-plotter revealed a 21-foot deep passage through the reef to the Atlantic's azure blue waters, the depth plotter's depth finder and bottom contour information was dead on. It also revealed a 4-foot deep patch of coral that was about 50-feet south of where I passed through the reef, and that's exactly where it was.
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