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Originally Posted by BobHorn
Why not do it the easy way and follow the fairways? No platforms, well heads, pipes sticking out of the water. Set a waypoint to the next intersection or turn and let the ap do its thing while you sit back and enjoy the ride.
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Your joking I assume? Are we talking about the Same area? Upper
gulf Coast? You have a choice of the intercoastal or offshore, there are no channels. ..offshore many obstacles are not marked and are not lit at night. Even very far offshore. And the intercoastal is not something I'd want to do on
autopilot because there are a whole lot of barges and that traffic has to be navigated & it's a lot of distance that sometimes goes across an area that has a cross
current. ..got to have someone at the
wheel ....sometimes a barge will be pined against the bank & the tug will be holding it there in
gear & that prop wash will push you around in the intercoastal. ..now offshore I was on
autopilot alot but was dodging alot of junk. ...I mean alot! That's an area that you better be paying attention. ..... the
Mississippi has a huge amount of traffic coming & going... what I did was about the time I was west of the river I came through
New Orleans across the river into the
Mississippi sound to avoid the traffic where the river dumps into the Gulf, east of the Mississippi everything changes, west of the river
marinas are far apart, east & then it's white sand and
marinas everywhere,no oil rigs & nice sailing