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Forum: Navigation 06-11-2012, 19:23
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

All electronics (https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/tags/electronics.html) are but tools which when combined with other navigational tools make for a well equipped "navigational tool box" (of...
Forum: Navigation 06-11-2012, 08:54
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Raster charts (for US) can be downloaded free from NOAA....for all of us poor sailors, I'd call than an advantage.
Forum: Navigation 05-11-2012, 20:13
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I use a PC w/Nobeltec 6.5 as my chart plotter w/ Raster Charts (.BSB format) and ENC charts. I have charts for every place I have been, am and plan to go as well as most places I don't plan to...
Forum: Navigation 05-11-2012, 20:01
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I use a PC w/Nobeltec 6.5 as my chart plotter w Raster Charts (.BSB format) and ENC charts. I have charts for every place I have been, am and plan to go as well as most places I don't plan to...
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 23:50
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

The purpose of DR is either to give you some idea where you are until you can get a fix or get you close enough to the coast to be able to recognize landmarks and/or nav markers
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 21:22
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

GPSs say they are accurate to xmeteres, conditions and how many satellites are found changes this
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 20:09
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

This wasn't a matter of coral growth, just not taking into consideration GPS error.
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 18:58
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

The key word is almost, electronics are almost infallible and extremely precise.....but the fact that they are not entirely infallible or precise ended a friend of mine up on a reef, he was entering...
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 12:48
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I am a poor sailor and can't afford more than Nobeltec 6.5 on an laptop.


This also works for developing your celestial navigation skills or for that matter any form of "analog"...
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 11:29
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I have to whip out reading glasses to read my electronic display which is way smaller than my paper charts
Forum: Navigation 04-11-2012, 11:27
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

The purpose of DR is to figure your position with out any position input such as sextant, GPS, landmarks etc.....a plotter uses input from GPS which makes DR unnecessary....if you have no input as...
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 23:44
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Here, as with all threads...to each their own, I just hope people listen carefully enough to what other people are saying to be able to complement their own opinions and/or practices.
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 22:59
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Dead reckoning is figured by taking into account last known position, compass heading, speed, effects of wind and current to come up with your actual bearing and new position.
Because the computer...
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 21:59
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

to figure the effects of the wind you have to factor in the characteristics of the hull, rig. sails, waves action, wind speed and angle as they apply to your individual boat....these can only be know...
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 20:48
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

If all input is manual than the only differance is the fornat of display
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 20:25
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Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

If a GPS says that (due to conditons) it is accurate to 30meters the computer will not draw a circle with a 30 meter radius (have seen as much as 245meters and no less than 5meters) but put your...
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 19:19
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Most chart plotters take it for granted the source of the digital input is as accurate as digital sources are capable of and do not allow for variations.....ie they consider the input to be 100%...
Forum: Navigation 03-11-2012, 10:12
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

One nice thing about not having an "all in one system" each of my GPSs (one handheld, one fixed w/ antenna mounted to boom gallows) and the laptop (which will eventually have it's own GPS) all...
Forum: Navigation 02-11-2012, 19:43
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I stopped being a passenger at age 7 (45 year ago) I learned to sail, navigate, engine start.shut down, docking, anchoring, reefing, etc....my father was retired USN and wanted me to start at an...
Forum: Navigation 01-11-2012, 19:01
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

My compass is an antique 5" card (7 1/2" overall) flat compass mounted in an equally as old bronze binnacle....it has an element of cool electronics just can't touch
amd to satisfy the techies.....a...
Forum: Navigation 01-11-2012, 12:50
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I was trying pretty hard to phrase it in such away as to point out it was my personal preference and to describe what that was. What bothers me to no end is the people that think their way is the...
Forum: Navigation 01-11-2012, 08:55
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Having the finaces as well as the knowledge to be able to take advantage of all the combined capabilities of electronics is about on a par with being extremely skilled in all forms of "analog"...
Forum: Navigation 31-10-2012, 10:25
Replies: 1,005
Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I do have an almost (2 1/2"dia) pocket watch size barometer (made by a German company as an altimeter/barometer for hiking so it reads in millibars and Celsius), my wrist mechanical wristwatch is...
Forum: Navigation 31-10-2012, 08:39
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

The pocket watch is making a come back.....not because of an appreciation of the style and elegance of a finely crafted piece of machinery. But because the new pocket watches have too many gadgets...
Forum: Navigation 30-10-2012, 17:28
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Views: 97,920
Posted By wolfenzee
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Just because it can be done with less sophisticated instruments and calculations can be figured out.....i'll stick to my modern (1974) sextant.
There is a celestial navigation calculator that...
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