3 reasons:
1) I am absolute death to electronics...doesn't matter what the instroo
is, as soon as I turn it on it goes haywire and I hate
screwing around with electronix just before, or during a race.
2) I'm cheap and didnt want to spend the dough
3) I like to keep things as simple as humanly possible ( see reason 1).
VMG data is great for distance stuff and longer leg W/L, but
on short leg W/L in weak current (< 1.5 kn) anything more than compass
and speedo is overkill and is a distraction from focus...in my opinion.
Distance race, a competent navi-guesser is pure gold, but around the
buoys I have been on too many boats where the helm and the tax man
get into lengthy "discussions, " arguing over the GPS data, when I'm
looking at the speedo and it's dropping 20% for each 15 seconds of talk.
also I'm a bit of a Luddite....
tf
that's actually 4 reasons
Phil Agur wrote:
Tim,
So why not go with a VMG gauge?
