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Forum: Marine Electronics

10-01-2015, 17:03

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Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

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Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Gday Jon, doing OK. Boat and I both in NZ... boat in re-hab.... should be out of shed next month with rig and keel back on....back to Chile Jan next year...

Not sure if mine is a 'production boat'...

Forum: Marine Electronics

10-01-2015, 12:32

Replies: 357

Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Views: 36,647

Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

The area around the Pot Boil and Vansitartt Shoals is the bit that is dodgy with the constantly shifting banks... I doubt much has changed offshore from Gull Island ( bottom right) for the last...

Forum: Marine Electronics

07-01-2015, 11:00

Replies: 357

Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Views: 36,647

Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Indeed , no such thing as a new stuff up. I have seen a photo taken in the 1920's of an american timber schooner scooting past Cowes 'inwards to Melbourne'.
Major difference with TC was that she was...

Forum: Marine Electronics

06-01-2015, 16:00

Replies: 357

Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Views: 36,647

Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Erm... Cook didn't do any Tas/Bass Strait survey work.
And not so much errors in original surveys as ommissions.... if one excludes the longitude issue. Nothing wrong with a good old survey using...

Forum: Marine Electronics

06-01-2015, 15:15

Replies: 357

Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Views: 36,647

Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

And also... much of Bass Strait and thereabouts further off shore has been surveyed with 'lines of soundings' dating from the 1800's. The lines of soundings were quite clear on the old imperial...

Forum: Marine Electronics

06-01-2015, 14:53

Replies: 357

Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Views: 36,647

Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Is 1970 the date given in the little box in the corner of the chart or just the date under the title? ( away from my paper charts just now). When they first metricated Oz charts they would simply say...

Forum: Marine Electronics

06-01-2015, 00:57

Replies: 357

Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Views: 36,647

Posted By El Pinguino

Re: Another foundering how do chart plotters get it wrong

Nothing new to any of this.... they may be experienced 'racers'.... experienced navigators? Probably not....

Back before GPS.... late 80's or v early 90's .... the day job...poking along in...

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