katysails wrote:
Don't you even dare to think that thought.
--
Perre

I will if you persist in such a lubberly fashion...electronic charts?
Where's the romance? Where's the glory? What about all those
pathetic little pencil marks, lovingly placed every trip with each
new find? What if someone blows the friggin satellite up? What f
you can't get near enough to a K-Mart to get new ones (let alone
steal new ones like one person here)? Perre, you've been brainwashed
into the 2st century. Technology isn't everything. I refuse to give
up my wonderful rolled up charts (BTW, we buy them on proected
paper). I refuse to give up the compass and dividers.

Sigh.
What am I gonna do with you? How about if I let you keep one chart rolled up
and a pencil to go with it.
--
Perre

You have to be smarter than a robot to reply.

Sigh.
What am I gonna do with you? How about if I let you keep one chart =
rolled up
and a pencil to go with it.
--
Perre

Ain't worth nuttin without the compass and dividers....
--=20
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Can't make a good gasket from silicon doncha know.

Cheers MC

katysails wrote:

Don't you even dare to think that thought.
--
Perre

I will if you persist in such a lubberly fashion...electronic charts? Where's the romance? Where's the glory? What about all those pathetic little pencil marks, lovingly placed every trip with each new find? What if someone blows the friggin satellite up? What f you can't get near enough to a K-Mart to get new ones (let alone steal new ones like one person here)? Perre, you've been brainwashed into the 2st century. Technology isn't everything. I refuse to give up my wonderful rolled up charts (BTW, we buy them on proected paper). I refuse to give up the compass and dividers.

"Per Elmsäter" wrote in message
...
Real sailors use nothing but digital charts. It is folish even to have
paper
charts as backup. What if they get washed overboard for instance, or eaten
by the ships rat. No it is much safer to have a redundant system of
digital
charts.


What Operating System do real sailors use to run their navigation S/W on?

Regards


Donal
--

Linix or if you must Unix. Or, if you really must OS X.

"Donal" wrote in message
...

"Per Elmsäter" wrote in message
...
Real sailors use nothing but digital charts. It is folish even to have
paper
charts as backup. What if they get washed overboard for instance, or
eaten
by the ships rat. No it is much safer to have a redundant system of
digital
charts.


What Operating System do real sailors use to run their navigation S/W on?

Regards


Donal
--

I bought a Mac laptop a year ago. It's the one I take with me when I
travel. My HP laptop just sits on the desk.

Still, for serious database servers and fast logging systems, I prefer
Sun Microsystems and Solaris. It has always worked.

PDW

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:09:16 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote:

Linix or if you must Unix. Or, if you really must OS X.

"Donal" wrote in message
...

"Per Elmsäter" wrote in message
...
Real sailors use nothing but digital charts. It is folish even to have
paper
charts as backup. What if they get washed overboard for instance, or
eaten
by the ships rat. No it is much safer to have a redundant system of
digital
charts.


What Operating System do real sailors use to run their navigation S/W on?

Regards


Donal
--

Nice Per, but I've noticed, not a single strike from the wily Bobfish! You
have to remember, the Bobfish is a bottom feeder, you have to come up with a
particularly rancid bait if you hope to land one of these trophies.
John Cairns

"Per Elmsäter" wrote in message
...
Real sailors use nothing but digital charts. It is folish even to have
paper
charts as backup. What if they get washed overboard for instance, or eaten
by the ships rat. No it is much safer to have a redundant system of
digital
charts.

Perre

You have to be smarter than a robot to reply.

The trick is to stay away from sailing related subjects if you wanna catch a
Booblefish.

John Cairns wrote:
Nice Per, but I've noticed, not a single strike from the wily
Bobfish! You have to remember, the Bobfish is a bottom feeder, you
have to come up with a particularly rancid bait if you hope to land
one of these trophies.
John Cairns

"Per Elmsäter" wrote in message
...
Real sailors use nothing but digital charts. It is folish even to
have paper charts as backup. What if they get washed overboard for
instance, or eaten by the ships rat. No it is much safer to have a
redundant system of digital charts.

Perre

You have to be smarter than a robot to reply.

--
Perre

You have to be smarter than a robot to reply.