Re: [Cal_Boats] Cal-28's Mass of Electronics

Donald Dutton2008-01-09 17:38 UTC

My depth sounder and boat speed both went out on me back in 1995 shortly before we moved the boat from New Jersey to the Chesapeake. At first I was afraid to travel without them, but we became much better navigators while having to closely plot our positions using visual triangulations of land features to verify the Loran C that was mounted next to the chart table. We sailed two years on the Chesapeake without ever touching bottom using this system. On our way home we visually navigated the entrance to Whorton Creek at midnight as a "final exam" of our charting skills and made it through this tricky entrance without a bump! We have now sailed for 12 years on several bodies of water without these instruments. We use a lead line when anchoring and keep it in the quarter berth for easy access. We love the new Garmin GPS 76c that I described, but we made the whole journey from Monterey to San Leandro with frequent visual verifications of it's stated positions by triangulating lights and land features on our paper chart. While I love the GPS, I would never go anywhere without a chart, compass (magnetic), parallel dividers, and several grease pencils. The one problem that we encountered was the West Marine store in Fresno did not stock paper charts and we had to order them and have them shipped to us. I hope they never do away with them altogether. Don Dutton, 1986 Cal33, "Quantum Evolution" From: "Downing, Thomas" <Th… [at] ipc.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 8:25:44 AM Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] Cal-28's Mass of Electronics My Cal 2-27 - fancy electronics. Got a "new" boat, no electronics. Thought about getting some, found I didn't miss them. td -----Original Message----- From: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Cal_ Boats@yahoogroup s.com]On Behalf Of Chris Campbell Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:26 AM To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Cal-28's Mass of Electronics Husar, Charlie [USA] wrote: All I got is a regulafr old compass and an old Kenyon knotmeter that sometimes works. Have a little portable GPS, but usually don't have time to screw around with all the buttons and the frequent AA cell battery replacement. For driving, I just let my butt talk to my hand. Keep my brain out of it. After all, my butt is much closer to the boat than my brain is. :- ] A big THANK YOU to Charlie for letting me know that I'm not the only antediluvian primitive sailor out here. We've got a chart plotter GPS on the schooner, one at the helm and one below at the nav station, but I only cruise on that boat about once a year and only use the screen with the little boat icon to steer with and the one with the lat/long for logging positions. And by the next year I've forgotten how to find those. Technology is wonderful but it would be nice if there were some standardization among manufacturers. The magnetic compass doesn't require pushing any buttons or reading any instruction books.... Chris Campbell DISCLAIMER: Important Notice ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* * This e-mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mail.E-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e-mail messages, you may decide not to use e-mail to communicate with IPC. IPC reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail messages to and from its systems.