yeah, "heading". And our heading did not change when we got caught in the eddy
of the Gulf Stream. In fact, we would not have even noticed except that we
happened to be viewing gps's at that moment. Eerie.



My compass points north (pretty much). So if my heading has changed
and the compass is still pointing pretty much north, then it should be
pretty obvious (unless one is blind) not to notice the difference.

Excuse me... I meant to type heading not course.

"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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My compass doesn't tell me my course, it tells me my heading. Is yours
different?

-jeff

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Gee, and I thought a compass would change if one's course changes.
Must not be true on whatever planet you're on.

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Jax,

You aren't going to tell us again, that you were traveling south in
the
Gulf Stream.

olde fart, we were traveling south, trying to stay just to the west of
the
Gulf
Stream (and trying to stay outside the 100 fathom line in case the
wind
picked
up), when an eddy caught us and in seconds shifted our course from
190* to
90*
(as discovered on two gps's being toyed with at the time, and then
confimed by
LORAN), with no noticeable change in compass heading or clouds in the
sky
or
change in sounds of the water going by. The two of us playing with
individual
gps's each believed our individual machines had gone on the blink,
until
the
LORAN confirmed what had happened.


What Port did you duck into?

We didn't certainly didn't need to run to shore. We just tacked. We
were
about 100 miles off shore at the time.


OT