Roger Long wrote:
Ronald Wong wrote:

I suspect that's your problem.

Your Garmin thinks you're in a car.

No, I know that much. Actually, it was acting like it thought my car
was a boat. However, the route was following roads properly for 80%
of the trip but just taking that weird shortcut across the invisible
bridge. It's supposed to act one way or the other; not both.

Are there still any DUKW's available in the US Roger?

I haven't tried it yet but I intend to try to set up a route which involves
catching one of our many ferries to one or other of the Scottish Islands. I
will let you know how I get on.

Dennis.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
...
Roger Long wrote:
Ronald Wong wrote:

I suspect that's your problem.

Your Garmin thinks you're in a car.

No, I know that much. Actually, it was acting like it thought my car
was a boat. However, the route was following roads properly for 80%
of the trip but just taking that weird shortcut across the invisible
bridge. It's supposed to act one way or the other; not both.

Are there still any DUKW's available in the US Roger?

I haven't tried it yet but I intend to try to set up a route which
involves
catching one of our many ferries to one or other of the Scottish Islands.
I
will let you know how I get on.

Dennis.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote

Are there still any DUKW's available in the US Roger?

They are incredibly popular here. I even designed one for the company that
operates two here in Portland.

If you go to Boston on a summer day, you'll see one go by about every five
minutes. Due to their success in the tour business, all the WWII ones have
probably been snatched up and refurbished by now.

I recently read a fascinating book about ocean waves. The author spent a
several years surveying and studying beaches in the Pacific Northwest using
DUWK's in high surf and stated something that I would never have expected.
They are one of the best surf boats ever designed. The drag of the forward
wheels pulls them forward without actually surfing in such a way that they
don't pick up too much speed and risk broaching. Despite the fact that they
will sink if swamped, the author and his crew survived many years of
extensive operation in waves up to twenty feet.

The book is at my office and I'm home but I'll post the title if anyone is
interested. Well worth reading for anyone whose interests in life bring
them into contact with waves. (Would that cover anyone in this group?) Old
and probably unobtainable though.


Dennis.

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...

"Dennis Pogson" wrote

Are there still any DUKW's available in the US Roger?

They are incredibly popular here. I even designed one for the company
that operates two here in Portland.

If you go to Boston on a summer day, you'll see one go by about every five
minutes. Due to their success in the tour business, all the WWII ones
have probably been snatched up and refurbished by now.

there is a tour company, in Washington DC, that has them and part of the
tour is a trip on the Potomac.

Leanne

The GPS resource page mentioned at the beginning of this page seems to
be an excellent resource. I checked it our yesterday and found the
solutions to two minor but iritating problems I've been aving with my
76CS. One was described in the FAQs but for the other I had to post a
quesiton on their forum. Incredibly I had an answer withng a couple
of hours.

I am in no way afiliated with the site other than that I found some
answers.

Matt

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...

They are incredibly popular here. I even designed one for the company
that operates two here in Portland.

If you go to Boston on a summer day, you'll see one go by about every five
minutes. Due to their success in the tour business, all the WWII ones
have probably been snatched up and refurbished by now.

I recently read a fascinating book about ocean waves. The author spent a
several years surveying and studying beaches in the Pacific Northwest
using DUWK's in high surf and stated something that I would never have
expected. They are one of the best surf boats ever designed. The drag of
the forward wheels pulls them forward without actually surfing in such a
way that they don't pick up too much speed and risk broaching. Despite
the fact that they will sink if swamped, the author and his crew survived
many years of extensive operation in waves up to twenty feet.

The book is at my office and I'm home but I'll post the title if anyone is
interested. Well worth reading for anyone whose interests in life bring
them into contact with waves. (Would that cover anyone in this group?)
Old and probably unobtainable though.



Anything like the Vietnam era Lark V vehicles they like to use up here for
tours?
http://www.harbourhopper.com/About.php

In article ,
says...
Roger Long wrote:
Ronald Wong wrote:

I suspect that's your problem.

Your Garmin thinks you're in a car.

No, I know that much. Actually, it was acting like it thought my car
was a boat. However, the route was following roads properly for 80%
of the trip but just taking that weird shortcut across the invisible
bridge. It's supposed to act one way or the other; not both.

Are there still any DUKW's available in the US Roger?

You can take a ride on one around the Seattle downtown and waterfront.
I'd guess that they don't have any problems routing their tours!

http://www.ridetheducksofseattle.com/

I haven't tried it yet but I intend to try to set up a route which involves
catching one of our many ferries to one or other of the Scottish Islands. I
will let you know how I get on.

Dennis.

Mark Borgerson

In article , rlong003
@maine.rr.com says...

"Dennis Pogson" wrote

Are there still any DUKW's available in the US Roger?

They are incredibly popular here. I even designed one for the company that
operates two here in Portland.

If you go to Boston on a summer day, you'll see one go by about every five
minutes. Due to their success in the tour business, all the WWII ones have
probably been snatched up and refurbished by now.

I recently read a fascinating book about ocean waves. The author spent a
several years surveying and studying beaches in the Pacific Northwest using
DUWK's in high surf and stated something that I would never have expected.
They are one of the best surf boats ever designed. The drag of the forward
wheels pulls them forward without actually surfing in such a way that they
don't pick up too much speed and risk broaching. Despite the fact that they
will sink if swamped, the author and his crew survived many years of
extensive operation in waves up to twenty feet.

The book is at my office and I'm home but I'll post the title if anyone is
interested. Well worth reading for anyone whose interests in life bring
them into contact with waves. (Would that cover anyone in this group?) Old
and probably unobtainable though.


"Waves and Beaches" by Willard Bascom is still available at Amazon. I
got my copy as a text for a summer class in coastal oceanography
at the Bodega Marine Lab in 1967. We didn't have any DUKWs, so
we had to send volunteers out into the surf with measuring rods
to get data for that part of the beach profile.


Mark Borgerson

Mark Borgerson wrote:

In article , rlong003
@maine.rr.com says...
I've been having some very unsatisfactory experiences with the
roads routing features of this GPS using the MetroGuide software.
I'm sure hoping the problems don't translate into similar issues
when using it on the boat.

Anybody want to talk about this or know of a discussion group
specific to it?

Anybody had problems with ignored waypoints and strange routing on
the water using Blue Charts?


I used my 76C (Not X with compass) last summer to record track and
for general cockpit usage last summer in Desolation Sound. I didn't
use it for tracks, although I did have the Canadian chart pack loaded.
I didn't notice any egregious errors when compared to the papter
charts--but I was sightseeing and gunkholing in daylight and
the accuracy of the Blue Charts was not an issue.

The tracks along the major highways on our trip to California
also looked OK for the most part between Corvallis and Sacramento.



Mark Borgerson

Desolation Sound is a great area to sail. We've done it three times and
are going to do it again within the next year or two. Where are you
located? We're in Boise,Id and trailer sail an Irwin 28. Jim



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Roger Long wrote:
Here is the specific issue that prompts my post:

I set up a route on the computer with MetroGuide and everything is fine. I
transfer it, with the waypoints to the GPS, and it looks fine. As soon as I
activate or recalculate it, it drops two of the waypoints and moves the
route to crossing the harbor (by car) and then back across the bridge to go
through the waypoint I put in to force that route instead of the more round
about one it selected first. I verified that the waypoints are in the
correct order and active.

I tried deleting all routes and recreating the route on the GPS. It then
comes up with the same weird, amphibious car required directions.

Does this sound like a user error?

No, but ISTR there is a "known issue" in transfering *routes* from
MetroGuide/CityFoo (i.e. Mapsource) in a PC to units that are 'smart'
enough (& have the cartography loaded) to autoroute *themselves*.

It seems that that GPS see the start & end points and thinks "Pwah! I
can route better than that stupid PC" and starts routing itself - part
of the problem is that intermediate turnpoints (NOT waypoints) are not
always downloaded.

'fraid I can't remember the answer,/workaround but I'm sure someone on
the GPS newsgroups can...

rgds, 'GPSmap60CS, CS/BC' Alan
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