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Its not the existence of £60 GPS's that worries me, its peoples total reliance on them.

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I think you are maybe overplaying the reliance. I have a plotter and backup gps, but am in no way reliant on them. I've been navigating by chart/map since I was 10, and have not lost those skills, and many I know are exactly the same. The convenience of a plotter or gps is very handy, but if they were taken away tomorrow, I wouldn't worry about it, I'd just have to work a bit harder at navigation.

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I have no argument with your description - its probably what I would say as well (except we don't have a plotter and just use a GPS. Its the people who seem to be paranoid about losing their electronics that worry me. Its not the end of the world if you have some idea of what you are doing - as you say yourself.

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