GPS or digital compass?

Island Girl · 03-25-2009, 04:27 PM

I study the chart a lot... if I am going somewhere new, I study the chart first, then venture out. I turn on the GPS only when I am comfortable with the route. The GPS tracks the route that I can use on future trips... just follow it on the GPS. This works well for night trips as well (in a boat of course). I put the handheld GPS in a ziplock bag in the little compartment in front of me in the jetski. This way if I am really lost the
GPS can tell me my location and I can then use the chart to determine my safe course home. I did enter all of the waypoints from the back of Bizer's chart into my GPS which is an old Garmin III+. It does not take Bizer's chip. Someday I will get a new GPS that takes the c-map chip. I lust after the huge GPS in the wheelhouse on the Mount Washington.

IG

03-25-2009, 04:27 PM	#20
Island Girl Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Central MA Posts: 2,356 Thanks: 18 Thanked 574 Times in 181 Posts	A chart and a GPS and lots of study I study the chart a lot... if I am going somewhere new, I study the chart first, then venture out. I turn on the GPS only when I am comfortable with the route. The GPS tracks the route that I can use on future trips... just follow it on the GPS. This works well for night trips as well (in a boat of course). I put the handheld GPS in a ziplock bag in the little compartment in front of me in the jetski. This way if I am really lost the GPS can tell me my location and I can then use the chart to determine my safe course home. I did enter all of the waypoints from the back of Bizer's chart into my GPS which is an old Garmin III+. It does not take Bizer's chip. Someday I will get a new GPS that takes the c-map chip. I lust after the huge GPS in the wheelhouse on the Mount Washington. IG __________________ Island Girl ....... Make Lemonade