Re: Handheld plotters

In article <873aoxq4wj.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, martin.schoon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> "Dennis Pogson" <dennis_nospampogson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
> > TonyB wrote:
> >>> I have e-mailed you a screenful of the Bluecharts Atlantic chart for
> >>> this area. You are talking big bucks, but you seem quite determined
> >>> to find the best navigation software regardless of cost.
> >>>
> >>> You can zoom in until you can see the pontoons in the marinas using
> >>> such software.
> >>
> >>
> >> Mobile phone with net access and use Google Earth?  :-)
> >> TonyB
> >
> > Google Earth is not accurate enough for serious navigation at sea.
> >
> Where I live it is more accurate than the charts including
> Garmin's Bluechart. But there is no information on the stuff
> below the surface...

Yer see those 'dark' bits near the shore? - they're rocks!!! 

:)


BTW; I use Google Earth to check out coastline rocks for inshore 
sailing, such as the Able Tasman in New Zealand - where many rocks are 
uncharted.  Very handy for working out the best mooring spots.

-- 
Duncan