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bought a GPS
I've got a neat little garmin that works as well on land as water. You can
get either marine or streets and roads CD's and they download into the unit as needed. It was originally a backup for the boat systems, but it rides in the car a lot now. -- Keith __ If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it. "Parallax" wrote in message om... 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. |
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