Supposedly, this is how accidents happen on Great Lakes. I don’t know if these 
are urban legends or not, but I heard that, especially, on Georgian Bay, there 
are accidents of boats colliding, because two skippers enter the route based on 
buoys as waypoints and since the autopilots plus chartplotters are so accurate, 
the boats travel on the same trajectory (course). People assume that you can 
enter the course (route) and go down to entertain the guests. The chartplotter 
should alert you, when you approach the destination.

Marek


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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:24:46 -0400
From: "dwight" <dwight...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Stus-List Autohelm St4000 how it should work with the GPS
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I know it has probably been done by others but I am not sure that I would
ever let my ST 4000 plus steer a course unattended based on transfer data
from my chart plotter.

 

My wheel pilot works fine but I always keep an eye on it and the course
ahead, in bad weather it steers while I sit under the dodger watching ahead
and on my hand held gps chartplotter backup.I use the Garmin 60Cx as backup
with Garmin bluecharts installed.  I do not trust completely unattended
steering

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