Cruising Sailors Forum Archive

Messages In This Thread

• Chart plotting philosophy
  • The latter. The first suggests a schedule which doesn't work for me.
  • Between the two
    • In between "trips"' while on short hops
  • General routing research before the passage
  • Both.
    • I use the annoying Chartbook
      • If using Coastal Explorer...
        • I don't trust my PC
        • I don't trust my PC
          • That sounds less annoying than the chartbook
            • I was on the Bridge of a 1000 ft Cruise ship
            • I don't think rocks move around much
              • Pixels, paper, they both work.
            • The big picture and tunnel vision
              • exactly
                • Quite often for me it was a 'WTFAW'
  • Lean toward the latter
  • I usually chart my position based on my track ever
  • Chart Plotting Philosophy
    • Richard, I do the same thing but use
  • Big paper charts for planning...
  • I use my PC for planning..
  • Large scale paper for visualization, PC (Mac actually) for route entry, CP underway.
  • I do all my planning on a tablet. I haven't plugged in a waypoint since my last Loran.
    • Amen