Larry wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote in
:

If it isn't course up, he complains. I don't like it

I meant of course that I don't like course up.

either, although I started out with electronic charts on the computer
and not back in the dark ages when he did.

As far back as I can remember, my father used to hound my mother for
turning the roadmaps upside down so she would see course up, too....(c;

Oh, it used to make him mad.....

Don't know why he didn't like that- I don't do it very often, but I
will do that just to be sure that I'm telling him the right way to
turn.

I have a lot of trouble with right and left. So if you told me to
turn to the starboard, first I have to think starboard is right, and
then I have to figure out which way that is (although I'm not as bad
as a girl in my modern art class who had a lot of trouble in the slide
presentations because she couldn't see the freckle on her left wrist
in the dark). It's kind of a family joke - no no the Other left.

Of course, HE was the one that got lost....not her.

I'm always the one that does the navigation (car and boat) and he's
usually the one at the wheel. I can't react quickly enough that I
want to be there in a tricky situation.

On the boat, I put the waypoints into the map on the computer and also
any previous tracks in the location, and set the computer up for him.
He could probably do it himself if he had to but if it doesn't go
quickly he gets irritated with it.

Someone mentioned having the charts off by about a mile, and that was
the case in Bimini. The first time we went we went in by eye - me
standing on the bow as lookout. The GPS was tracking on the computer
but we weren't watching it. When we went there the second time, I
had the previous track to go by and we could follow it even though it
looked like we were on land.