On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:55:23 -0500, Larry wrote:

You might try it. Simulated a main battery short or flooding and see how
you do.

I didn't have to try it. A lightening strike on a wavetop 100 yards
away provided all the "simulation" we needed. I navigated the last
300 miles into Bermuda on a handheld GPS. That was in 1994 when
handhelds were still a novelty and cost mucho dinero.

No big deal. I had stored and logged all of the critical waypoints in
advance.

You still haven't convinced me that paper charts are better for route
plotting either. I'd be willing to challenge anyone to a little
exercise where we both plot something like a ten legged course over
multiple charts; log the lat/lon of all the waypoints; compute range
and course for each leg; and calculate total distance.