On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:49:55 +0000, Parallax wrote:

Being a psuedo-Luddite who still has a slide rule (and knows how to
use it), I still use paper charts and think that navigation and
position plotting is aesthetically pretty, but I also admit to being a
geometry/trig geek.
SNIP

I still use paper charts and have (count 'em!) three compasses on Far
Cove. I looked at a charting GPS: I'm sure they're fine for the US, but
the chart put the port marker of Welcome Passage about exactly where the
stbd marker is, and the entrance marker for Secret Cove in the middle of
Turnagain Island. I promptly bought a GOOD, but non-charting GPS: A Furuno
GPS32. It tells me my course (so I know what tidal currents are doing to
me), speed, bearing/dist to waypoints, and of course Lat/Long, so I can
check on my paper chart where I am. What more do you need?

It's on www.furuno.com - just drill down through
Products-Navigation-GPS Receivers-4.5" Mono Display

And is has one display that displays a single reading (I usually display
speed) in HUGE letters so even a near-sighted old fart like me can read it
from anywhere in the cockpit.

Lloyd