hlb
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Reged: 16/05/2001
Posts: 17552
Loc: Any Pub Cornwall or Devon
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Off to Plymouth tomorrow, to drag the boat round to Wales. Not looking folwards to it alot. Hire car all packed up. The coast of Devon/ Cornwall, so easy, tide table, we'll get one eventually. So how goods this garmin thingy, I mean, I have a few charts, mostly big things of the whole Irish sea. Like 1979 version. However on testing the Garmin in the car, it did take me over the swinging bride in Preston marina.
So. Raythion will take me to Landsend no problem. Or ummf to Scilly Ilses, we aint decided. Then normally I would just go back to paper and give it lat and long., then press auto. My thinking being, just using the Garmin 550? just to be sure.
JUst to refresh the auto pilot is on rathion old model. The Garmin new. Should I use lat and long, work out the course in the old rathion. Or learn the garmin thingy and use auto pilot manually. 
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BarryH
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Reged: 31/10/2001
Posts: 6122
Loc: In my own little world
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If it were me I'd stick to what I know and learn to use the new techy stuff before I relied on it........
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BrendanS
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Reged: 11/06/2002
Posts: 37077
Loc: Me: Wilts. Boat: Lymington
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or run it in parallel, and learn as you go. Long enough trip to get to grips with it, without relying on it.
It's fairly intuitive
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longjohnsilver
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Reged: 30/05/2001
Posts: 7140
Loc: Devon
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Garmins a bit modern isn't it?. You'll be telling us its in colour next rather than different shades of green.............
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TugWilson
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Reged: 01/02/2007
Posts: 462
Loc: Sunny Cumbria
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Have a good safe trip,Maybe come and bother you in Wales on my way up.
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Lawsy
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Reged: 22/02/2008
Posts: 586
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Have a good trip h. Hope to see you in North Wales some time in the next few weeks.
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kipper
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Reged: 16/03/2006
Posts: 528
Loc: North West
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Good luck and if you are popping into Pwllheli let us know and we can buy you a well earned beer......or two.
Gary
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Fireball
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Reged: 15/11/2004
Posts: 7475
Loc: Chichester
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oo ... you better make sure you don't plot a course through the bit of the map that says .... 'Ere be Dragooons ..... 
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