[Rhodes22-list] GPS, Wally, Mary Lou, big spenders

[Slim]

Ed and Wally,

The kayaks made by the Eskimos would accumulate a little water inside and
they could steer in the dark or fog by feeling how high it splashed up on
their butt cheeks.  8-)

Slim

On 2/12/06 8:41 AM, "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

> 
>    The GPS is great, but how much GPS is necessary?  Is external antenna
>    necessary on a Rhodes 22?  A good hand held is all that is necessary.
>    The big bucks some want to spend for color wide screen chartplotter is
> utter waste. 
>    
>    Wally do you have a mount with external antenna for your kayak?
>    For night sailing on Lake Hartwell we do not have one lighthouse,
> especially 
>    not Michael's ten lighthouses.  Shipping channels?  Yea we have a main
>    channel but as Rummy will tell you about an affair with the Carver,
> they 
>    are the ones on autopilot, not the small boats.
> 
>    These newbies maybe should learn their boat before they sail in fog, at
> night 
>     or navigate at night or potentially foul weather far from home port.
> By that time 
>     the gear will be outdated.
> 
>     As for that Maine sailor who navigates around icebergs to his island
> retreat, his fellow
>     Eskimos did it in kayaks without GPS.   Maybe he should consider
> Eskimo day camp? 
> 
>     Those worried about getting struck need one of those radar units with
> hazard
>     approching warning attached to good klaxon.  You know like on a
> submarine, dive, dive!
>     Listen here: 
> http://www.classic-car-accessories.co.uk/acatalog/soundtklaxonred.html
>     (Those units are available, but might have a large battery draw, where
> is that spread sheet.)
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> 
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