I guess that makes us opposites. I'm the Fonz when it comes to electronics. Actually I'm a reliability engineer with aerospace roots and I when I put something together it's just much more robust because I naturally avoid the flaws that cause failures.
That said I agree the most important resource on the boat is a skipper that can keep his head in the game. And what ever real or imaginary device that makes him confident he has the edge. Phil Agur s/v Wing Tip Secretary, C270 LE #184 IC27/270A MMSI 366901790 www.catalina27.org Vessel Doc# 1039809 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tim ford Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Target speeds 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? > > > > > >
