Re: AIS ship data: everibody have seen this? - why do we use GPS to track buoys??
- From: Jack Erbes <jackerbes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:29:54 -0400
Ted wrote:
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I don't put much faith in the cry of the geezers about the undisputed reliability of the simple magnetic compass and the paper map. I don't believe that most of them even go boating. They just sit on the internet and run their mouth.
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..why I don't have much patience for geezers who ignorantly sing the praises of paper maps as the be-all and end-all in marine navigation and why I don't believe that most of them have ever been to sea.
Thanks for the details. You seem a little fixated on older people and people that use charts. I have nothing against either one of those groups.
When I go to sea it is usually to deliver someone else's boat and my focus is to do it without damaging the boat or getting lost. I usually have at least three frames of reference available for navigation and I use them all. But I never put my trust in any one of them exclusively.
Coastal Maine is not a good place for relying on one thing, I like the warm fuzzy feeling I got when I have two or three things telling me that I probably am where I think I am.
Between the navaids, the chartbook, and the GPS chart plotter, I'm the only one that has to be right all of the time.
Jack
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