Background: Planning a trip next summer that involves a 90 mile crossing through the islands of Bathurst Inlet on the Canadian Arctic Coast. The new CHS Tide and Current tables (for $6.50CND) for the Arctic Ocean & Hudson Bay region were just released yesterday, which I am ordering along with the appropriate nautical charts. Out of boredom (AND at my worksite!) I have browsed some software for tide and current nautical programs, and downloaded a demo for one of them. I DO NOT take my laptop with me paddling, and could never justify the price some start at $100 USD for tides and currents only, working their way up to professional programs, perhaps better suited to bringing an icebreaker and tugs pulling supply barges through the Northwest Passage!!! for $450). An OT Tripper might be a barge, but..... Has anyone used this "sailboat" type technology, and have opinions on their utility (as opposed to the antediluvian methods of paper and pen ,watch,compass, and map ? (Just last summer I finally got an EPIRB, and still consider a GPS to be "too expensive,too new-fangeled" ....but my "wariness" is more anti-tech and philosophical, than "too stupid to use". Just curious. My wife would kill me if she knew I was even "flirting" with such a software program. (GRIN). Rich Dempsey ridem_at_msn.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 15 1999 - 18:42:04 PDT
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