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Edgar wrote:
"Capt.American" wrote in message ups.com... After reading the responce you provided I suggest you hang your charts on the wall and marvel at all the information you have no clue existed. What a putz you are you deserve a chart that rolls up when you try to use it. Go buy software with a chart plotter GPS interface. Surely you can push a few buttons right? Capt. American's reply does raise another interesting issue. Like I implied in my last post, I do have paper charts for everywhere I go but I also have a chart plotter aboard and the memory chip for this cost me the equivalent of $330. Now where I sail in Oslo fjord this remains useful because there are hundreds, if not thousands, of islands and small rocks which do not change and there are hardly any navigational buoys and no sandbanks at all so the chip on the plotter is still a useful guide and I only bought it last year anyway. But how often is someone who has bought one of these expensive chips going to get an updated one? A really good point. I use a Garmin GPSMap 175, given to me in 1997. The chart I use most often, Portland to Cape Cod, will be 10 years old next summer and the format is now obsolete. I have a number of slightly newer chips for the East Coast, but nothing more recent then 2000. Fortunately, this is not my primary tool, I use the GPS to verify my position on a paper chart, which is up to date. I'm glad you brought this up because I'm planning to head Down East this coming summer and don't have the chip, so I have to start looking on ebay! Paper charts are not cheap but you can afford to update/replace them as necessary, so IMO they are not outdated technology until chart plotter chips come down to reasonable figures. |
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