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What to buy what to take along
From: Millard Kirk
Date: 1999 Aug 03, 6:33 PM
From: Millard Kirk
Date: 1999 Aug 03, 6:33 PM
Nav list,
I have been reading the different views on what to buy and what to take and
a voyage.
Jim Manzari had a pretty complete list, but I disagree on the ( Cheap,
throw-away 7x50 binoculars) I take my 7x50 Commander Steiner's with the
built in compass. The compass is dampened very well. They have gotten me
and the boats out of a lot of trouble. I still plan on getting a hockey
puck compass.
(1) On equipment I tend to buy the best I can afford.
(2) On GPS's ... My last voyage we had two GPS's go on the blink. DR's
are still great. A marine GPS such as Garmin 48 can also double as a
navigational calculator to a certain degree.
(3) Have knowledge of how to use what you have.
(4) Don't depend wholly on electronic devices. Water has proven to be the
down fall of any thing electrical or electronic with salt water that goes
double.
(5) I still take my slide rule. It is the same one I used in college
chemistry many years ago. It is a circular one.
(6) Most important don't go offshore without knowledge. My most scary
moment was when I realized on my first voyage offshore, I knew more
seamanship than all others on the boat, and my only training at the time
was through three sailing classes and studying on my own. Theirs was either
coastal or small lake sailing in small boats They could trim the sails.
For some reason that qualifies many to get crew position for offshore
deliveries. As little knowledge as I have, I know that many are going
offshore with far less than I.
(7) As a crew member my list is not a large as Jim's, but growing. I
take a lot of the same stuff he does.
Still...............
Learning the Hard Way!!
Millard Kirk KB8YQO | mailto:mkirk@marshall.edu
116 Lewis Ave | http://webpages.marshall.edu/~mkirk/
Barboursville, WV | A West Virginia Blue Water Sailor
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