Bobsprit wrote:
I didn't say that it affected the trip. But with a newbie navigator,
I would have thought that some sort of backup that was better than
'failing batteries' would have been prudent.

We had a backup. They're called "paper charts." They don't need
batteries, nor does the 3 compasses we carry.

I thought the paper charts were your primary nav tools, and that the GPS was
the backup?


In any case we were able to use the GPS for the whole trip.

20-20.


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Wally
www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com
Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light.

Bobsprit wrote:
Can you appreciate that there's a difference between 'preparation'
and 'hindsight'?

I bought the batteries. Bagged them. They fell out in the car
somehow. At Port Jeff we simply both forgot. Still doesn't mean much
as the unit was operational for the trip.

10 out of 10 for hindsight, but minus several million for preparation.


--
Wally
www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com
Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light.

means that
you just don't get it. I think this gives us a good idea of your real life
navigational
skills.

After 8 years, I strike a rock which is charted, because I misjudged my
distance from Potters Field. What's more is that I admit to making this silly
error.
Not only am I twice the sailor, but I'm twice the man of anyone here!

Bwahahahahaha!

RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message ...
We had a backup. They're called "paper charts."

Let's us have their numbers please?

Bwahahahahahah!

S.Simon - a Captain who knows a fraud when he sees one

We had a backup. They're called "paper charts." They don't need
batteries, nor does the 3 compasses we carry.

I thought the paper charts were your primary nav tools, and that the GPS was
the backup?

Every nav tool is a backup for every other nav tool.
Keep trying!

RB

as the unit was operational for the trip.

10 out of 10 for hindsight, but minus several million for preparation.

Well, if forgetting batteries is my biggest error, then I admit to it!

RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message

| We had a backup. They're called "paper charts." They don't need batteries,
nor
| does the 3 compasses we carry.

Unfortunately you have no idea how to utilize either the paper charts or the
compasses. You don't even know the variation for your area.... you couldn't
complete a simple deviation table, without which you compass is useless for
proper navigation let alone confirming fixes on your "line of sight" trip


| In any case we were able to use the GPS for the whole trip.

Yeah Bob... sure you were! Bwahahahahahahahaaa!! You claimed the whole trip
was done by line of sight with only "spot checks" on the GPS. You even
implied no chart work was done because of line of sight... now you are once
again reinventing the story.

It's amusing to watch how many changes you make to the original plot.

CM

Let's us have their numbers please?

NOS numbers? I have the chart kit here. For which area?

RB

Bobsprit wrote:

I thought the paper charts were your primary nav tools, and that the
GPS was the backup?

Every nav tool is a backup for every other nav tool.
Keep trying!

When you play Deep Purple records, do you have everything louder than
everything else?


--
Wally
www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com
Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light.

Odd... you claimed a few days ago that you forgot to buy batteries... now
you say you did buy them but lost them?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!

CM

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
| Can you appreciate that there's a difference between 'preparation'
| and 'hindsight'?
|
| I bought the batteries. Bagged them. They fell out in the car somehow. At
Port
| Jeff we simply both forgot. Still doesn't mean much as the unit was
operational
| for the trip.
|
| RB