Bruce wrote: > Last year on the tidal Trent, I took a leaf out of the book of one of > the tug skippers (as described in an article in one of the comics) > and kept an eye on my handheld GPS, sitting on the slide. If you see > your speed over the ground dropping off, you know you're leaving the > channel.
Useful advice if only I had had my GPS with me ;-)) Otherwise it was seat of the pants stuff like the old skippers used to do. ;-)) Roger
