"Arcadefreaque" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
If you don't have a computer on your boat, then you have to write down
the
info you want to log and transfer it to a computer at home. Then, it
resides
on a computer you don't have access to when you need it - on the boat, in
other words. This product is a non-starter, at least for me. Even if I
had a
boat big enough to have a generator or inverter, the use of those
appliances
is dependent on petroleum. I'd be hard pressed to find a way to justify
running an engine to power a computer, when I could could simply open an
old
fashioned log book.

Maybe it needs a Pocket PC for data collection and retrieval, and the
desktop/laptop component for reports, etc! (coming from a pda software
developer...)


Maybe. I guess that when I get onto my boat, I don't want to see gadgets,
even though I know that a few are necessary for navigation.