Craig Jungers wrote: > In our modern world we are isolated from weather even though we know more > about weather than ever before in human history. We know, for instance, when > a snowstorm is going to drop three feet of new snow in the mountain pass > between here and Seattle; but we will drive to Seattle anyway and do it in a > t-shirt and shorts. This remarkable disconnect between what we know and how > we behave with that knowledge is something that paddlers have to battle with > almost every time we sit our butts down in the cockpit. [snip] Great piece, Craig. Keep it up. I have boxed the deck compass on my main hardshell once, which was 10 years ago [blush]. Time to do it again, even though I have never found any incorrect readings on it or any of the three other deck compasses I have boxed, over the years. In addition, the bearing my GPS gives, when underway under conditions that should give minimal drift, seems identical. We take each of our yaks to a local high point, set it on a mechanic's creeper and roll them around to three or four known landmarks to which we have established magnetic bearings (off a NOAA chart). As a double check, we do this at a couple different spots, and one or two sans creeper, to make sure there is nothing in the ground and no effect from the metals in the creeper to invalidate the boxing. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Sep 23 2007 - 12:12:13 PDT
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