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Rosalie B. wrote:

I also have computer charts for these areas, which I do not print out,
but use with a GPS in the cockpit. They show me where I am, and have
the advantage that even if the buoy's are renumbered, I can still see
where I am. If buoy #36 is next to my boat, but the chart says it is
buoy #24, that's OK - I still know where I am.

*SOME*times! A few times before GPS, we did some long time-and-distance
runs where both 24 and 36 *could* have been at the far end. Navigating
further without knowing for sure would have been .... "interesting".

One time we were shooting for #1 on Onancoke, which was listed having a
bell.

We fetched a #1 with no bell after 4 boisterous hours.

Where the heck WERE we?

The next hour or so was more stressful than the previous 4 over open
water because I had to depend upon my having done things right, not my
usual first assumption.

Turned out that the bell had been removed the previous week, while we
were cruising, so there's no way we could have gotten the update.

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Jere Lull
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