Year before last we had a 38 foot sailboat enter Minerva reef by GPS.
After a couple of days decided to go out the other side via visual...Guess
what...Well they salvaged much of the equipment I understand. Seems to
me visual shortened their cruise and cost a lot of money.

Jim Donohue

Jim

Thanks for comments Jim but not sure what point you are making. Are you
suggesting that if they had gone out of the Minerva Reef using GPS they
would still have their yacht? Possibly they would. I would like to know more
about the case. What were the conditions like, time of day, position of the
sun, cloud cover, sea conditions? Also when they went inside the reef using
GPS did they know the accuracy of the chart in relation to the GPS?

cheers

jofra