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The GPS Broke. Now What?
If you lose your electronic advantage, taking a running fix will help you know where you are and where youre headed. "Hands-On Sailor" from our July 2008 issue
Aug 15, 2008 By Andrew Burton (More articles by this author) (page 2)
I'm not going to fall into a Luddite rant about the evils of electronics; it's so easy to simply plug in a GPS waypoint and steer to it that even I occasionally leave my sextant and tables at home when I go on deliveries. But I also always keep an updated "estimated position" that tells me where I am and what course I should be steering to make my next waypoint. Practicing some of the more traditional forms of coastal navigation is a good mental exercise, and personally, it makes me feel like quite the old salt when I haul out the hand-bearing compass.
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