Looking at the track on the chartplotter we saw that the drift was caught in the stronger current of the gulfstream and pushed us out into the flat, non-structural portion of the sea bottom. We, pulled the lines and ran back to set up ...
I recently bought a sailboat with a Raymarine SL72 Radar/Chartplotter. It's supposed to have a GPS as well. When the boat was surveyed on land, of course, the...
We lost our autopilot, a laptop was smashed, our chartplotter blew, and one crew smashed her head open in the cabin. It was extremely dangerous. By the time we reached Bermuda, we were very grateful to be alive, and each one of us ...
We just hooked up our chartplotter GPS on a makeshift mount, and it works amazingly well. It really helped our nervousness being in the fog with it. We motored out about 1/2 mile south of Charles Island. ...
We finally picked it up, with the help of a GPS chartplotter that had a three-year-old digital chart stored on a little memory chip. Once we started trusting it, we were fine, following the screen’s route right into Lookout Bight. ...
The chartplotter led us through deep water to the mouth of the Manatee River. The autopilot did all the work, with JZ punching in + 10 or –5 to change course. Terry and I performed all the winch duties. I oversaw the course, ...
mechanical compass; GPS chartplotter; sonar; chemical toilet; cool box. We are looking forward to a lot of relaxing sea journeys this summer. Someone has said that the difference between sailors and motorboat owners is that the ...
Integrated GPS, autopilot, compass; Radar is nice to have but not a deal breaker; Chartplotter, nice if integrated; Redundant GPS (as a backup); The usual (heel angle, wind direction, speed, range, bearing, target speeds, layline, ...
Low and behold, the radome was on the mast, the chartplotter was installed at the helm, and all the wiring was back in place. Sunny and breezy, the boat looks ready (even though we hadn’t heard from the boatyard despite many phone ...
