Ryk wrote:

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:45:59 GMT, in message

Rosalie B. wrote:

Ryk wrote:

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:42:55 GMT, in message

Rosalie B. wrote:

One thing that I do for my husband that you might do for yourself is
to put a route or previous track on the computer. The routing is a
big blue line, and it is pretty easy to whether the ship is on the
route or not. If it is in the ICW or someplace where we have been
before, and where the route twists and turns a lot, I put the previous
track (which I have saved) up on the computer.

Unless the screen shots are magnified, that's a pretty big screen
compared to the GPS 76. Does the colour help a lot in darkness?

Ryk

It's a regular laptop screen - I just measured this one and it is
8"x11" and I think the one pictured is about the same (can't remember
which one it was).

We have two old Garmin GPSs which have a very small screen and only
one of them has ATONs on it. They are both LCD.

Yes the color does help. Bob complains if I put the night colors on
because it washes the colors out.

Thanks for the input. Looking at the pictures I think we are doing two
different kinds of sailing. I could not keep a computer in the
cockpit, even in a box.

I'm sure we ARE doing two different kinds of sailing. I would not go
if I did not have a bimini. And Bob has to stay out of the sun
because he's already had one melanoma removed from his arm (just above
his watch).

I don't mind not having ice cubes and ice cream in the freezer - I
will drink warm water or other drinks without ice cubes (per the other
refrigeration thread). I enjoy traveling by boat. But I won't be
out in the sun.

The bimini makes the instrument reading a whole lot better too. Most
of the time it shields the screens from the direct sun and the
computer box helps too.

FWIW, before we had the computer box, we strapped the computer to the
nav table in the aft cabin where we could see it from the helm by
looking over the right shoulder and down the companionway. Although
we do have the box, and have had the computer in it through some
pretty heavy rainstorms, we don't normally have it in the cockpit if
we anticipate really bad weather.