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You guys do still use the old Mark1 eyeballs too, right?
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I have to admit having crude navigation electronics... I have a radar, a handheld GPS and paper charts. My autopilot only holds a compass course.
All of the boats I have ever sailed have had some variation of this... none have had fully integrated electronics (overlaying charts to radar for instance) or GPS based autopilot.
While no doubt perhaps nice to have; this discussion time and time again gets right back to "well if they had only used paper charts..."
I'm beginning to think the old Mark1 eyeballs are the best thing going.
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- Anyone see the latest on Ensenada race accident...
- Here's their SPOT tracks
- better URL for the SPOT tracks
- WOW
- The thing is the skipper had done the race before...
- You're correct that NO sensible person would set the waypoint on a fatal headland, then have an autopilot steer there.
- That island is only 2 miles long
- Jon speculated a reasonable scenerio below...
- I a 2 mile island doesn't display on your chart plotter using any reasonable scale in that context...
- You're showing a RASTER chart
- Every chartplotter I know of has a split screen.
- That's a good idea I never used Dan
- There's no reason to go wide.
- Split screens w/ radar overlay gives you a lot of options
- You guys do still use the old Mark1 eyeballs too, right?
- That's a good idea I never used Dan
- That island is only 2 miles long
- You're correct that NO sensible person would set the waypoint on a fatal headland, then have an autopilot steer there.
- I've gone inside and outside of those islands so many time I couldn't count
- The thing is the skipper had done the race before...
- WOW
- better URL for the SPOT tracks
- Thread On The Subject Below
- More on this from Sailing Anarchy...
- Here's their SPOT tracks
