roger_millin wrote: > 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
Shirley for France, you have PC Navigo 2010 on your laptop, plugged into your GPS dongle, on Phoenix? -- Neil Arlidge Barge Maurice A / NB Earnest TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
