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You should always have backup navigation aids available (printed maps, compass, watch), regardless of whether you trust your GPS device or not.
by mattbk1 6y ago
You should always have backup navigation aids available (printed maps, compass, watch), regardless of whether you trust your GPS device or not.
- rightbyte 6y agoYe. I do alot of sailing and did it in the 90s and early 00s with only map and compass, so I know how hard it is. Without gps you need to sail in such a way that you are in line with landmarks etc. With gps you can roam freely. If you are out on the sea and the gps dies and you have not been tracking the paper map you are lost, so GPS are in practice realy critical devices. Especially since many sailors nowadays might be rusty on map navigation. I mean garmin have high quality and I agree people need to not trust electronoc tools too much and be too dependent on them