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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...
    • Looking at some of the other posts...
  • I use it the same way you do Tom
    • I'm looking forward to one myself.
  • I do what you are doing but I have a lot of waypoints.
  • By GPS that would be the iPhone or iPad
    • INavx is pretty nice. We navigated into Progreso , Yucatan
  • 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
          • Never mind the fog!!
          • My parents couldn't even listen to me in the bedroom!
          • Okay
      • I like using waypoints.
        • good point, sometimes you're not going where the boats pointing.
          • Dan, finish the story! Why the discrepancy? Oh,
            • the North Equatorial Current between Testigos & the eastern islands
              • "Won't do that again"?
                • Martinique for New Year was great.
                  • Don't care how great it was...
                    • As Eileen Quinn said. "It's a good thing a sailors got a short memory".
          • I'm almost never going where my bow is pointing.
        • I use waypoints like bread crumbs. I go
          • Trails
            • I could turn some of them into routes or trails but
  • 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 some
      • I enter lots of useful waypoints; could even be a chain, thus a route.
  • 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
        • I would agree....
          • Practical Sailor Sept 2012 Gear of Year gave nod to iNavX
            • Obvioiusly....
        • Bahamas Chart
          • I don't agree...
            • i dont agree
      • The San Blas isn't exactly well charted
        • Same as you....
          • That GE ability has been present for several years
            • The the app store.
              • OK, I think I see the problem
                • One would have hoped...
                  • Even Bauhaus's charts are incorrect in areas
                    • I would expect that from...
                      • My point was that it is not just Navionics
                        • Yeah ....
                          • You are right about GE now
                            • I singled Navionics out because...
                              • Yes we got back Sunday and are preparing to head back out this weekend
                                • Wow, first time you mixed...
                              • Clarification on iNavX
                                • Yep...
                                  • That is true, Splashtop is a great app
                                • Just to be clear (related to the above discussion)
                                  • That's right...
        • Our Navionics Gold was fine in the San Blas.
          • I am talking about iNavioinics
            • I find that odd as well.
          • Isla Pino's, San Blas Panama Bad iNavionics
            • If you were at or near 10, that's not really bad.
            • Considering...
              • This is my favorite. I'll bet you've never done this.
                • Nope, don't expect to either!
    • Since pmnav12 is listening....
      • Since pmnav12 is listening...