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Originally Posted by Descant
There's a lot of chatter here about various GPS and whichever chip to use. As as a long time boater before GPS, I'm curious what the GPS folks use for back up. We rarely see info here about using a compass and timing runs to get from A to B in the fog. Do people compensate their compass or even use it? At night, from Wolfeboro to the Weirs, you can pretty much see the red mountain top lights related to the Laconia Airport, so there should be no reason for disorientation, but I've never seen reference to these lights or other landmarks for navigation on this site. You really don't need GPS under VFR conditions, and if you're IFR, you need a back up.
What do you use? Please don't tell me you get around using GPS or Bizer when the sun is shining. That's not the point of the question.
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Used to lead wilderness canoe trips with map & compass. Very rarely needed the compass but for those few occasions it was, fog, night, ultra complex island chains, it was irreplaceable. Now I am a huge fan of gps with a good map chip while boating but always have map & compass on board.