[Rhodes22-list] GPS Sailing at Night

[TN Rhodey]

The GPS is quite handy. I have used the tracks feature to find way back to 
my marina after overnighting and waking up to a heavy fog. We stayed in 
Hilton Head a while back and I had my kayak with me. I decided to paddle 
around the many canals the wind around the interior of the island. The 
tracks feature helped me find my way back thru the maze.

When we were cruising up the East Cost last summer the tidal info was quite 
helpful. Also VMG features can help you when racing or cruising. You can use 
GPS to help trim sails and CB.

You can get by without one but for the price they really are amazing.

Wally




>From: Michel Meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: 'The Rhodes 22 mail list' <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Sailing at Night
>Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:29:06 -0500
>
>I also add,
>
>When I going somewhere I generally like to do it at night, moving around
>the sound means avoiding hitting rocks, otherwise know as land, avoiding
>tugs with long line tows, high speed fairies, dreg fishing and sea going
>ship(you know the ones that will wonder for a few seconds where that
>blue streak on their bow came from after you are run over), the list
>keeps going. If you are smart about it, you set your course about 100
>yards offset outside of the buoys on rumlines and I run the charting GPS
>the whole night to make sure I stay their(or outside), and the charts to
>double check depths and hard things. Ed there are 10 light house
>visiable from my docks and generaly 10 visible anywhere on the sound,
>their not their to be pretty, or beacon to come to, their to stay away
>from because dead reckoning has gotten people dead.
>
>-mjm
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
> > bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Bill Effros
> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:16 PM
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sailing at Night
> >
> > I love to sail at night.  It's really interesting.  But it really
>helps
> > to know where you are at any given time.  This requires a full-time
> > skilled navigator.  It you don't have one on board, a GPS will do in a
> > pinch if you have lost sight of your bearings.
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> > Mary Lou Troy wrote:
> >
> > >Ed,
> > >While I don't like being out in fog and low visibility (it's almost
>never
> > zero) any cruising sailor can get caught in a sudden rainstorm or have
>to
> > make it home in low visibility. The Rhodes 22 makes a wonderful
>cruising
> > boat for a couple. We find our handheld GPS a solid backup to our
>coastal
> > navigation skills. Among other things we know when we are entering a
> > shipping channel and the quickest way across which in low visibility
>is a
> > real plus.
> > >
> > >Mary Lou
> > >1991  R22 Fretless
> > >Ft. Washington, PA / Rock Hall, MD & Swan Creek
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>From: ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net>
> > >>Date: Fri Feb 10 08:00:43 CST 2006
> > >>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > >>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] GPS reply to Captain Meltzer, Dave, Art,
>...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Michael,
> > >>	A Rhodes 22 should not be out in fog and zero visibility.
>However,
> > >>if you are then you should also have radar.  Do you have radar?
> > >>	Mr. Rummy posted your email site last fall, was this just a
>follow
> > >>up?
> > >>
> > >>Art,
> > >>	Your reply to Dave will get you on Mr. Rummy's black list.
> > >>
> > >>Dave,
> > >>	Captain Keller did not inform you of his South Carolina and
>Georgia
> > >>coastal trips.  You will have to search the archives for those
> > informative
> > >>posts.
> > >>	Dave said regarding Stan, "May delivery here assuming he is on
> > >>schedule with his new construction process."  So explain to the list
> > what
> > >>his new construction process is?  Is he not using Calvin to make one
> > boat at
> > >>a time?  Or has he enclosed a room so that he can have it warmer and
> > work
> > >>even on the coldest days?  You let it slip, now the details.
> > >>	If you need a fancy GPS for Lake Champlain, have you considered
>a
> > >>sonar unit to look for Nessie?
> > >>
> > >>Todd,
> > >>	Lighten up.
> > >>
> > >>Bill,
> > >>	Slim is the one with the hair.
> > >>
> > >>Ed K
> > >>Greenville, SC, USA
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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