On Sat, 03 May 2008 09:03:51 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote:
> Derek Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 12:21:23 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Turner wrote:
>>>> Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for
>>>> coastal dinghty sailing please?
>>>
>>> I use a Garmin GPSMap 60CS with Bluecharts Atlantic and find it
>>> excellent.
>>>
>>> Dennis.
>>
>> Thanks for that. Could you check for me that the UK base-map includes
>> the Channel Islands?
>
> The base map is pretty useless. You have to buy the Bluecharts Atlantic
> CD to get the detailed charts, which makes it rather an expensive
> aquisition.
>
> The above CD contains all the charts from Spitzbergen to Capetown, N-S
> and from India to Greenland E-W, excluding the US coastline.
>
> Like Keith, I have to ask why you need such a device for dinghy sailing?
>
>
> Dennis.
Lots of rocks and a 40-foot tide: I really would like to know /exactly/
where I am at all times. Hoping maybe to sail to Guernsey/Sark and the
Contentin peninsular eventually. Who knows, St Malo is only 33 nM away!
Quite apart from which my TomTom is useless here as Teleatlas have not
mapped the CI's whereas Navteq have so it would double as a turn-by-turn
in the car. That's why I asked you to check if they were covered in the
base map. I meant the road map rather than the nautical chart! Will it
direct you (say) from Saint Helier to Grouville?
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