On 5 Mar 2006 08:11:31 -0800, "Da Kine"
wrote:

If someone goes off shore with the hopes that GPS is going
to do it all for them then sooner or later, they will lose their boat
and maybe their life.

That is nonsense.

There is no viable alternative offshore other than celestial, and even
the Navy has stopped teaching it.

A couple of spare GPS handhelds with some extra batteries and you are
as secure as it gets these days. You DO need to know how to use them
of course.