Re: [Paddlewise] Navigation for both Power and Paddle

From: Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:14:41 -0700
Jeez... has Paddlewise died or what? Days and days with no one posting. How
sad.

I looked on eBay and 60C's seem to be going for around $150. Cheapest was
one in Port Angeles for $100 on craigslist (right now, I think).

I bought a USB GPS unit for the laptop and think I'll use Tiki for
navigation on the mutha. Seems to work very well in the living room and the
GPS even picked up position information sitting on my sofa with a second
story on top of me and an aluminum awning just outside the window. I was
very impressed.

Garmin 76Csx models on the Internet going for as low as $229 if you shop
around.

My fish-finder (an old Uniden I got very cheap on craigslist) has GPS
capablities as a backup (but no mapping). I can also use the Garmin 72 that
I use (very happily) in the kayak.

For paper charts I have a West Marine "waterproof chartbook" of the San Juan
Islands and an Evergreen Pacific "Cruising Atlas" that covers from Queen
Charlotte Sound to Olympia with many harbor charts, photos, and drawings.
None of these are, strictly speaking, good for kayaking as the pages are
large. But with copy machines everywhere now it's relatively easy to just
make something and put it into a ziplock bag.


Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
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