[Rhodes22-list] GPS Sailing at Night

[Bill Effros]

Wally,

Which GPS are you using?

As I've described previously, I only have a GPS because I got it free.  
I'm a no-instruments guy.  I was stunned at how often I use the GPS, and 
always turn it on, first thing, when I set up my boat to sail.  It has 
many uses beyond the obvious. 

Bill Effros

TN Rhodey wrote:

> The GPS is quite handy. I have used the tracks feature to find way 
> back to my marina after overnighting and waking up to a heavy fog. We 
> stayed in Hilton Head a while back and I had my kayak with me. I 
> decided to paddle around the many canals the wind around the interior 
> of the island. The tracks feature helped me find my way back thru the 
> maze.
>
> When we were cruising up the East Cost last summer the tidal info was 
> quite helpful. Also VMG features can help you when racing or cruising. 
> You can use GPS to help trim sails and CB.
>
> You can get by without one but for the price they really are amazing.
>
> Wally
>
>
>
>
>> From: Michel Meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
>> Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> To: 'The Rhodes 22 mail list' <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Sailing at Night
>> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:29:06 -0500
>>
>> I also add,
>>
>> When I going somewhere I generally like to do it at night, moving around
>> the sound means avoiding hitting rocks, otherwise know as land, avoiding
>> tugs with long line tows, high speed fairies, dreg fishing and sea going
>> ship(you know the ones that will wonder for a few seconds where that
>> blue streak on their bow came from after you are run over), the list
>> keeps going. If you are smart about it, you set your course about 100
>> yards offset outside of the buoys on rumlines and I run the charting GPS
>> the whole night to make sure I stay their(or outside), and the charts to
>> double check depths and hard things. Ed there are 10 light house
>> visiable from my docks and generaly 10 visible anywhere on the sound,
>> their not their to be pretty, or beacon to come to, their to stay away
>> from because dead reckoning has gotten people dead.
>>
>> -mjm
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
>> > bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Bill Effros
>> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:16 PM
>> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sailing at Night
>> >
>> > I love to sail at night.  It's really interesting.  But it really
>> helps
>> > to know where you are at any given time.  This requires a full-time
>> > skilled navigator.  It you don't have one on board, a GPS will do in a
>> > pinch if you have lost sight of your bearings.
>> >
>> > Bill Effros
>> >
>> > Mary Lou Troy wrote:
>> >
>> > >Ed,
>> > >While I don't like being out in fog and low visibility (it's almost
>> never
>> > zero) any cruising sailor can get caught in a sudden rainstorm or have
>> to
>> > make it home in low visibility. The Rhodes 22 makes a wonderful
>> cruising
>> > boat for a couple. We find our handheld GPS a solid backup to our
>> coastal
>> > navigation skills. Among other things we know when we are entering a
>> > shipping channel and the quickest way across which in low visibility
>> is a
>> > real plus.
>> > >
>> > >Mary Lou
>> > >1991  R22 Fretless
>> > >Ft. Washington, PA / Rock Hall, MD & Swan Creek
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >>From: ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net>
>> > >>Date: Fri Feb 10 08:00:43 CST 2006
>> > >>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> > >>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] GPS reply to Captain Meltzer, Dave, Art,
>> ...
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >>Michael,
>> > >>    A Rhodes 22 should not be out in fog and zero visibility.
>> However,
>> > >>if you are then you should also have radar.  Do you have radar?
>> > >>    Mr. Rummy posted your email site last fall, was this just a
>> follow
>> > >>up?
>> > >>
>> > >>Art,
>> > >>    Your reply to Dave will get you on Mr. Rummy's black list.
>> > >>
>> > >>Dave,
>> > >>    Captain Keller did not inform you of his South Carolina and
>> Georgia
>> > >>coastal trips.  You will have to search the archives for those
>> > informative
>> > >>posts.
>> > >>    Dave said regarding Stan, "May delivery here assuming he is on
>> > >>schedule with his new construction process."  So explain to the list
>> > what
>> > >>his new construction process is?  Is he not using Calvin to make one
>> > boat at
>> > >>a time?  Or has he enclosed a room so that he can have it warmer and
>> > work
>> > >>even on the coldest days?  You let it slip, now the details.
>> > >>    If you need a fancy GPS for Lake Champlain, have you considered
>> a
>> > >>sonar unit to look for Nessie?
>> > >>
>> > >>Todd,
>> > >>    Lighten up.
>> > >>
>> > >>Bill,
>> > >>    Slim is the one with the hair.
>> > >>
>> > >>Ed K
>> > >>Greenville, SC, USA
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
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