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**maxingout** · 08-12-2011, 16:11

If I was going to sail around the world without navigational instruments, the first thing I would do is purchase a steel hulled sailboat with a really thick hull.

**boatman61** · 08-12-2011, 16:19

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Originally Posted by newt

Do you guys ever find that constantly looking at the GPS, the radar, the AIS and monitoring the VHF detract from the experience of sailing? I can see doing that as we jump from rock to rock in the San Juans (I do it) but out in the Pacific or Atlantic, during the day, would getting a fix once a day do it?

Yup...
GPS 4 times a day max..
VHF... only if its a Mayday or directed at me...
Radar AIS... thats big boat stuff innit....

**Hud3** · 09-12-2011, 04:17

We always logged lat/long, average SOG, etc. every two hours on passages, at the end of the watch. The helmsman would look at the GPS every now and then to correct cross track error.