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Forum: Navigation 01-11-2012, 16:08
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

That about sums it up very well,
Forum: Navigation 29-10-2012, 02:41
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

When every thing has failed, including compass, I can still get pretty close to where I am going, When the land comes in sight, I can figure out where I am from landmarks, and proceed from there to...
Forum: Navigation 26-10-2012, 20:07
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Here's a couple of piccys you can knock your selves out on,
when everything thing else has failed, Including compass,

This is all you may have left, its in the southern Hemishere,
Northern...
Forum: Navigation 13-10-2012, 21:16
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

True north and magnetic north is about 10 degrees difference,
Forum: Navigation 13-10-2012, 21:12
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Straight out inexperience, The learning curve, Etc Etc, and not knowing enough about a GPS and what it does,
I changed my GPS chart from Fiji to Australia a couple of days after I left Fiji, The...
Forum: Navigation 13-10-2012, 03:24
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Half a mile off Luatoka beach there is a man made reef, not visible at high tide from the beach,

Its Not on my paper charts, Its not on my GPS,

My depth sounder picked it up just as I was about...
Forum: Navigation 09-10-2012, 06:40
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Class one Hydrographic measurements are done by specialized computer software packages and are then printed on paper charts, Using GPS for positioning of the vessel doing the soundings,

I can...
Forum: Navigation 08-10-2012, 20:10
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Idling a diesel engine for long periods, or not working them, Glazes up the bores,
Water in any engine will bend the rods, Kaput instantly,
Water does not compress, so the energy has to go some...
Forum: Navigation 07-09-2012, 03:34
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

If your giving away Australian charts,
I will take them off your hands, I lost all my charts due to a sudden inflow of water on my boat, Drowning all my charts,
Forum: Navigation 06-09-2012, 05:40
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

How big is a boat before it is classified as a ship,

If as you say, it says all ships, and there is no classification for size, It means to me, my dinghy is a ship and I need to carry charts on...
Forum: Navigation 25-08-2012, 18:59
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Well said Dave,
Forum: Navigation 23-08-2012, 00:38
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Yukko, What a crappy tow, Hope you have calm seas all the way with that monstrosity,

At least the floating dock that sank had most of its weight under water and looked like a big U shape, and the...
Forum: Navigation 22-08-2012, 04:40
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

That sounds very much like the floating dock we patched up to be towed to China, from Melbourne,
It sank in the South China Sea, Nearly taking the Tug with it,

Hope yours is not the same,

Wish...
Forum: Navigation 19-08-2012, 19:30
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Thanks John and downunder, Very helpfull,
I will start a new thread in destinations,
Cheers,
Brian,
Forum: Navigation 19-08-2012, 08:27
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Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Thank you,
I have electronic charts for Adelaide to Darwin, All the east coast. But no paper as they all got drowned,

My mate is going to dig out a heap of charts for Port Phillip and Western...
Forum: Navigation 18-08-2012, 08:04
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Island Hopper, I see your online, What are the paper charts like for inside the Barrier reef,

I hope to go through there next year, Its unfamiliar territory, so any advice would be appreciated,
...
Forum: Navigation 18-08-2012, 07:51
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I dont know where youve been on the east coast of OZ, But your right about the paper charts,
Survey incomplete, and very large tracts of ocean are like that up there,

Especially the Coral sea,...
Forum: Navigation 17-08-2012, 17:15
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Even the daily newspapers and magazines are going the way of the dinosaurs,
Im a dinosaur, and I have watched the technology changes over the last 50 years,
From what we had then and to what we...
Forum: Navigation 16-08-2012, 01:36
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Try reading it again, It has nothing to do with navigation,

It is merely pointing out the difference of what was available 60 or 70 years ago to what is available today,

What is available today...
Forum: Navigation 15-08-2012, 22:01
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Paper charts in this day are very reliable, Most were done during the second world war, Where previously were non existant for most of the world.

Radar was invented during WW 2, Sorry, I made a...
Forum: Navigation 15-08-2012, 19:04
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

only 60 years ago, what did we have, Basically nothing to navigate with,

Sextant, Compass, and very unreliable paper charts. If they existed for the area you were in at all,

Electronic charts,...
Forum: Navigation 15-08-2012, 18:42
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

This might clarify a few points,

Marine any thing is very expensive, Electronics, Maps Etc,

Ipad is not Marine, So is inexpensive, Cheap,

If the Ipad was for Marine use, It would be very...
Forum: Navigation 21-07-2012, 01:14
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper charts now unnessary

Thanks for your info, You say it better than I do,
Its very hard to convey in a few simple words what is happening, In a very complex situation,
Plus I dont have the right words to say it with,
If...
Forum: Navigation 20-07-2012, 23:28
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper charts now unnessary

There is a litle bit more to it than that,
I did have paper charts and the electronic Gizmo's, Which I checked against each other frequently,

If I wasnt held up by customs. I would have sailed...
Forum: Navigation 19-07-2012, 01:48
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Views: 97,978
Posted By Mr B
Re: Paper charts now unnessary

Current Australian paper charts are $35-00 each and I would need a heap of them,

And a metre square or there abouts,

A XD sized card for my Garmin GPS or Plotter is $160 and covers Adelaide to...
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