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Larry

wrote in news:d26ve3lofos8h97d29tseulhljlqskidna@
4ax.com:

Things have changed.

I should say....click where you want to go and let The Cap'n figure out
how to steer it in the laptop...(c;

Ours is on wifi....Just plug into 12V anywhere on the boat.

By the way, I do have a very expensive Japanese sextant in a beautiful
storage box made of some fine wood, the HO tables, navigation books, etc.
I learned from a master chief quartermaster, USN, on the open bridge of
the USS Everglades (AD-24) from a man who'd been doing it for 35 years.
With the Navy's nice sextant, we could match the LORAN fix within about
400 yards, given enough time and great weather.

Sure wish we'd had GPS in the 60's....

Larry
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