I am a total novice when it comes to kayaking. However I have many years experience cruising Long Island Sound with a Loran receiver. I think that to much attention is being paid to the ultimate accuracy of GPS receivers. It is very rare for visibility to get below a 1/4 mile and I have never seen less then 1/8 mile. 1/8 mile is about 625 feet MUCH more then the error in Loran. In navigating via compass I could ALWAYS see the way point before the Loran indicated arrival. Please remember that you will be lucky to stay within 5 degrees of your rhomb line. Practice paddling straight! I find that the best tactic is to follow the receivers bearing indication and keep a sharp look out! The lesson from this is that unless you are trying to find a submerged object the accuracy of all present electronic aids is vastly in excess of your realistic needs! Richard Smith *************************************************************************** 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 Mon May 15 2000 - 18:30:26 PDT
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