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Forum: Navigation 18-02-2015, 08:09
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Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

And, if the chartplotter "goes out"? Seems a rather unlikely scenario, to have a failure of your GPS input independent of the plotter, no?

I know, I know... there's always an iPhone, or something,...
Forum: Navigation 12-02-2015, 17:28
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Good eye - yes, it is, amazing place... Have you been there?

The view from the boat...


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Forum: Navigation 10-02-2015, 17:15
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Of course I wouldn't... But my only point is that with a single glance at a paper or raster chart of the Western Indian Ocean, would give a pretty good indication of what the heck Cargados Carajos...
Forum: Navigation 09-02-2015, 17:31
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Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Well, I'd say "More obvious" is putting it rather blithely ;-) The raster - which of course is in effect a paper chart displayed electronically - clearly indicates the 'terrain' of an archipelago, 2...
Forum: Navigation 08-02-2015, 07:11
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Seems we're pretty much in complete agreement, I see nothing to quibble with in what you're saying...

However, the point I have repeatedly tried to make, is that the value of a paper chart in the...
Forum: Navigation 08-02-2015, 06:08
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Well, we can assume the appropriate paper charts were being carried aboard VESTAS, as required by the Notice of the Race. But, by "relying on", are you inferring that they actually LOOKED AT them ?
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Forum: Navigation 07-02-2015, 14:20
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

I'm a bit surprised you couldn't find the room, 3 Maptech chartkits will get down the coast from the Chesapeake, it's not like they're not gonna really take up all that much space...

Last summer...
Forum: Navigation 06-02-2015, 14:51
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Well, in the event of the aforementioned worst cast hypothetical, I'd still rather not know where I am on the relevant paper chart spread out before me, than to not know where I am on a blank...
Forum: Navigation 05-02-2015, 19:50
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

I'm lucky, in that regard... When reading something like that, my eyes begin to glaze over, before my brain really starts hurting... ;-)

I suppose that's the way dinosaurs were wired, no?
Forum: Navigation 05-02-2015, 07:03
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Ahhh, sorry about that... But are you sure you need to subscribe, instead of merely registering? Perhaps you do now, but it's been awhile since I first signed up there, I honestly don't recall...
Forum: Navigation 05-02-2015, 06:56
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Sorry, I should have qualified that, to refer to a smartphone that relies upon cell coverage to navigate...



The case I was attempting to make was in response to your own hypothetical citation...
Forum: Navigation 04-02-2015, 18:22
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Still, even with my rudimentary navigational skills, if I were ever to lose all power and electronic positioning capability while sailing anywhere, I'd much rather find myself WITH paper charts...
Forum: Navigation 04-02-2015, 05:29
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Depending upon where you happen to be sailing, that may not always be possible... ;-)


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Forum: Navigation 03-02-2015, 04:38
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Maybe... Or, maybe not...

I was glad to have a 'Real Chart' to fill in the blanks on this virtual chart up in Labrador last summer... ;-)

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Forum: Navigation 02-02-2015, 15:52
Replies: 371
Views: 37,286
Posted By Jon Eisberg
Re: Are paper charts a dinosaur?

Sounds like he lacked the chart of the appropriate scale... From the Comments section of the article cited:

John Harries' take on this issue seems pretty reasonable, to me...

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