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That would be memorable. 
In Response To: I once sailed (well, motored) from Boothbay to Salem in another Sabre w/o an AP. Not a lot of fun, IMHO. ()
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- Survey - who does route planning on their GPS as opposed to just using it for tracking position
- Well, in a way...
- I do...
- I use it the same way you do Tom
- I do what you are doing but I have a lot of waypoints.
- By GPS that would be the iPhone or iPad
- I use it to keep track of my position and onboard charts for route planning.
- I did in the Chesapeake, using downloads from
- Yes Somewhat
- I use mine mostly to give me boat speed and secondarily for position...
- Incidentally, I never set way points and don't have an auto pilot
- I once sailed (well, motored) from Boothbay to Salem in another Sabre w/o an AP. Not a lot of fun, IMHO.
- That would be memorable.
- When I was a kid
- That would be memorable.
- I like using waypoints.
- I once sailed (well, motored) from Boothbay to Salem in another Sabre w/o an AP. Not a lot of fun, IMHO.
- Incidentally, I never set way points and don't have an auto pilot
- Depends
- What's a GPS? All I need is a stick and a piece of string to do my navigating. '-)
- I use paper charts, verify position with GPS, and mark 1 eyeballs
- Routes on GPS, no.
- I do pretty much the same
- I do route planning on my laptop.
- A couple other uses not mentioned
- Used iPad Navionics apps for route planning a lot this past year
- Just don't use it here!
- Navionics
- The San Blas isn't exactly well charted
- Same as you....
- Our Navionics Gold was fine in the San Blas.
- Same as you....
- Since pmnav12 is listening....
- Just don't use it here!