GPS-an honest answer...?
 

OzOne wrote in Of
course, it's highly recommended that people not be over weight
and
watch their cholesterol levels, but I bet 75% of people don't
do that
either.

It's law here!


it's illegal to be fat in Oz?

Scotty

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

Sheeeze you yankee clowns...

Block navigation in the Gulf is long practiced by coonasses who can not
read or write.

Block Charts document the location of oil and gas drilling locations in
the Gulf of Mexico. Each oil platform has a block number on a hailing
board on the side of the platform. You go up to the platform, read the
number and look at a block chart of the gulf. You know exactly where
you are. On most courses out into the gulf you can pass close enough to
an oil platform to read the block number. The Govt leases blocks to oil
companies for the right to drill.

Joe

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

"DSK" wrote

OTOH we have quite a nice binnacle compass and I swung it
earlier this year.

How many people swing their compass... how many know how to
make up a
dev card?

Know how to, haven't done it.


How many sailors realize that a bearing can be taken with a
binnacle
compass? Obviously not Bubbles.


I very seldom need my GPS, usually at night. Mostly use
piloting and a waterproof chart in the cockpit.

Scotty

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

Capt. Rob wrote:
How many of you rely on your GPS without consulting charts these days?
How many of you back that up by using a handheld compass?
No judgements, and I'm sure some will get on a high horse after lying
about it. Just curious.


My GPS is a very early handheld mapping unit (GPSMap 175) which
provides limited charting info, assuming I have the chart chip. I
always have a paper chart on deck and consider that my primary tool.

I'm thinking about getting the new small Garmin that has NEXRAD
updates and can also be used in a car, but the screen is still pretty
small so I doubt it will replace paper charts. BTW, my boat is wired
for computer charting, and I have software and charts, but I never
felt comfortable relying on it. A close friend, who is a
traditionalist in many other ways, has his autopilot driven by the
computer.

I hardly ever use a handbearing compass nowadays, but I used to use it
a lot before GPS. I do use soundings frequently to double check
positions. Also, when I travel outside of home waters, I often have
dividers and sometimes parallel rules on deck.

As for Notice to Mariners, I subscribe to the local edition and read
it weekly, though I don't update charts.

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

Well, geeze Joe, how or why would WE know that?

Scotty


"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...
Sheeeze you yankee clowns...

Block navigation in the Gulf is long practiced by coonasses who
can not
read or write.

Block Charts document the location of oil and gas drilling
locations in
the Gulf of Mexico. Each oil platform has a block number on a
hailing
board on the side of the platform. You go up to the platform,
read the
number and look at a block chart of the gulf. You know exactly
where
you are. On most courses out into the gulf you can pass close
enough to
an oil platform to read the block number. The Govt leases
blocks to oil
companies for the right to drill.

Joe

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

In article , Jeff wrote:
Capt. Rob wrote:
How many of you rely on your GPS without consulting charts these days?
How many of you back that up by using a handheld compass?
No judgements, and I'm sure some will get on a high horse after lying
about it. Just curious.


My GPS is a very early handheld mapping unit (GPSMap 175) which
provides limited charting info, assuming I have the chart chip. I
always have a paper chart on deck and consider that my primary tool.

I'm thinking about getting the new small Garmin that has NEXRAD
updates and can also be used in a car, but the screen is still pretty
small so I doubt it will replace paper charts. BTW, my boat is wired
for computer charting, and I have software and charts, but I never
felt comfortable relying on it. A close friend, who is a
traditionalist in many other ways, has his autopilot driven by the
computer.

I hardly ever use a handbearing compass nowadays, but I used to use it
a lot before GPS. I do use soundings frequently to double check
positions. Also, when I travel outside of home waters, I often have
dividers and sometimes parallel rules on deck.

As for Notice to Mariners, I subscribe to the local edition and read
it weekly, though I don't update charts.

Do you get your via their email service? It's nice... I just print the
sections that apply to where I'm going, then I update the paper chart
in pencil the night before. When something changes, I make the change
or erase the notation as necessary.


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

How many sailors realize that a bearing can be taken with a binnacle
compass? Obviously not Bubbles.


And suppose your binacle fails or is broken?

I guess you'll just pick up the cell phone!

RB

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

I very seldom need my GPS, usually at night. Mostly use
piloting

Uh, yeah. If you use a GPS it's not piloting!!!

Bwahahahahahaha!

RB

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

My GPS is a very early handheld mapping unit (GPSMap 175)


Jeff, have a look at the new Garmin GPS 192c. It comes fully loaded
with all US Charts. I ordered one for the 35s5. It's quite a good value
and has a great screen.

RB

GPS-an honest answer...?
 

"Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message
...
You had better have a charting GPS on board when your chart gets blown
overboard
in that squall! Anyone who relies on just paper charts is a fool. And god
forbid
somebody falls with the winch handle in thier hand and smashes the
compass!


Captain Joe Redcloud

Bwahahhahahaahhahahhahhahaahhahahhaahhahahaha

John Cairns