GPS or digital compass?

4Fun · 03-27-2009, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Island Girl

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

Don't worry about the baggie with your GPSIII. It's waterproof. I tested mine thoroughly on a trip in NY harbor a couple years ago. 4'-5' waves and 25MPH winds up the Hudson river for 40 miles made for a very wet ride. I felt like a submarine driver for 3 hours!!!

JMR · 03-28-2009, 08:16 AM

Does anyone have a specific model of Garmin that does or does not work well on the lake? Handheld or mounted?

03-28-2009, 08:16 AM	#2
JMR Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Hampton & Rattlesnake Island Posts: 175 Thanks: 33 Thanked 70 Times in 32 Posts	GPS-Garmin Does anyone have a specific model of Garmin that does or does not work well on the lake? Handheld or mounted?