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bought a GPS
Parallax wrote:
Finally bought a GPS to augment my DR and coastal piloting via compass and chart. At first, I hated it (havent even had it on the boat yet) because it has all these damned menus that make it worse than programming a VCR. I was afraid it would ruin my geometric fun in finding position. My wife was also ****ed that I bought a gadget. THEN, I decided to bring it to work with me in my old truck. My truck with 280,000 miles hasn't had a speedometer in the last 10 yrs since the electronic one broke. I put the GPS in the windshield and suddenly realized I had a speedometer. Now, she likes it as a speedometer in the truck. It also finds altitude and I was never aware of the relative amount of elevation in Tallahassee, even when commutting by bicycle. Now, to see how it does on the boat. Don't rely on the gps for altitude. I recall sailing down the ICW last summer and observing the gps telling me I was converted from a sub (-40 feet) to a plane (+50 feet) within a few miles. I was seldom at sea level. Jim. |
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