[Paddlewise] Dead Reckoning Accuracy

G'day,

I recently went on an excellent one day navigation course and exercise,
which finished with us checking our ability to navigate by aiming to paddle
to a particular fixed point and then comparing our dead reckoning against a
GPS.

The group of about 14 paddled independent courses, but were all out by about
10%. i.e 900 metres after a 9km paddle.

I'ld be interested to know how accurate other people can be and any advice
they might have?

All the best, PeterO
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