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| 02 May 2008 11:26:44 |
| Derek Turner |
| Handheld plotters |
Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for coastal dinghty sailing please? |
| 02 May 2008 12:21:23 |
| Dennis Pogson |
| Re: Handheld plotters |
Derek Turner wrote: > Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for > coastal dinghty sailing please? I use a Garmin GPSMap 60CS with Bluecharts Atlantic and find it excellent. Dennis. |
| 02 May 2008 16:20:25 |
| Keith |
| Re: Handheld plotters |
In message <7HDSj.66019$h65.59814@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net >, Dennis Pogson <dennis_nospampogson@ntlworld.com > writes >Derek Turner wrote: >> Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for >> coastal dinghty sailing please? > >I use a Garmin GPSMap 60CS with Bluecharts Atlantic and find it excellent. > I use a Magellan Meridian (colour). A relatively old model - battery life might be a problem on similar older models so it might be sensible to do a bit of research. (Not a problem on cruising yachts with ancillary power connection but dinghy sailing is a different kof..) -- Keith replace nospam with ilf0rd |
| 02 May 2008 17:24:43 |
| Derek Turner |
| Re: Handheld plotters |
On Fri, 02 May 2008 12:21:23 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote: > Derek Turner wrote: >> Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for >> coastal dinghty sailing please? > > I use a Garmin GPSMap 60CS with Bluecharts Atlantic and find it > excellent. > > Dennis. Thanks for that. Could you check for me that the UK base-map includes the Channel Islands? |
| 03 May 2008 14:56:29 |
| Derek Turner |
| Re: Handheld plotters |
On Sat, 03 May 2008 09:03:51 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote: > Derek Turner wrote: >> On Fri, 02 May 2008 12:21:23 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote: >> >>> Derek Turner wrote: >>>> Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for >>>> coastal dinghty sailing please? >>> >>> I use a Garmin GPSMap 60CS with Bluecharts Atlantic and find it >>> excellent. >>> >>> Dennis. >> >> Thanks for that. Could you check for me that the UK base-map includes >> the Channel Islands? > > The base map is pretty useless. You have to buy the Bluecharts Atlantic > CD to get the detailed charts, which makes it rather an expensive > aquisition. > > The above CD contains all the charts from Spitzbergen to Capetown, N-S > and from India to Greenland E-W, excluding the US coastline. > > Like Keith, I have to ask why you need such a device for dinghy sailing? > > > Dennis. Lots of rocks and a 40-foot tide: I really would like to know /exactly/ where I am at all times. Hoping maybe to sail to Guernsey/Sark and the Contentin peninsular eventually. Who knows, St Malo is only 33 nM away! Quite apart from which my TomTom is useless here as Teleatlas have not mapped the CI's whereas Navteq have so it would double as a turn-by-turn in the car. That's why I asked you to check if they were covered in the base map. I meant the road map rather than the nautical chart! Will it direct you (say) from Saint Helier to Grouville? |
| 04 May 2008 20:51:24 |
| Martin =?utf-8?B?U2Now7bDtm4=? |
| Re: Handheld plotters |
"Dennis Pogson" <dennis_nospampogson@ntlworld.com > writes: > TonyB wrote: >>> I have e-mailed you a screenful of the Bluecharts Atlantic chart for >>> this area. You are talking big bucks, but you seem quite determined >>> to find the best navigation software regardless of cost. >>> >>> You can zoom in until you can see the pontoons in the marinas using >>> such software. >> >> >> Mobile phone with net access and use Google Earth? :-) >> TonyB > > Google Earth is not accurate enough for serious navigation at sea. > Where I live it is more accurate than the charts including Garmin's Bluechart. But there is no information on the stuff below the surface... -- Martin Schöön "Problems worthy of attack show their worth by hitting back." Piet Hein |
| 05 May 2008 20:33:08 |
| Duncan McC (NZ) |
| Re: Handheld plotters |
In article <873aoxq4wj.fsf@gmail.com >, martin.schoon@gmail.com says... > "Dennis Pogson" <dennis_nospampogson@ntlworld.com> writes: > > > TonyB wrote: > >>> I have e-mailed you a screenful of the Bluecharts Atlantic chart for > >>> this area. You are talking big bucks, but you seem quite determined > >>> to find the best navigation software regardless of cost. > >>> > >>> You can zoom in until you can see the pontoons in the marinas using > >>> such software. > >> > >> > >> Mobile phone with net access and use Google Earth? :-) > >> TonyB > > > > Google Earth is not accurate enough for serious navigation at sea. > > > Where I live it is more accurate than the charts including > Garmin's Bluechart. But there is no information on the stuff > below the surface... Yer see those 'dark' bits near the shore? - they're rocks!!! :) BTW; I use Google Earth to check out coastline rocks for inshore sailing, such as the Able Tasman in New Zealand - where many rocks are uncharted. Very handy for working out the best mooring spots. -- Duncan |