Thanks for the advise. I always study the charts on my laptop and Cary paper charts on the boat as well. never leave home with paper charts.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Marek Dziedzic <dziedzi...@hotmail.com>wrote: > If I may suggest one more thing – in your planning, don’t count on your > electronics only. Have a paper chart and the basic info on navaids that you > are supposed to see. You are already talking about backup GPS and a backup > to a backup, but stuff happens. > > I don’t know how the other guys are doing it now (I don’t sail off shore > anymore), but when I did off-shore, we kept a detail log (hourly) on speed, > course, position etc. which would give you enough information to start a > process of finding your way back home if all the instruments (other than > compass) failed. > > just my $0.02 > > Marek (in Ottawa) > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- “Sailors, Deb and I*c'était écrit*
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