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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Initially Posted - 12/26/2001 :  02:41:52  Show Profile
Happy Holidays to all!
To my surprise Santa gave me a e Trex Legend personal navigator. Anyone have any experience with it and is it worth while to purchase the MapSource CD rom?

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Response Posted - 01/02/2002 :  14:04:21  Show Profile
lucky dude - you must have been a good boy in someone eyes !

I use the etrex model below the Legend (yellow hand held). It's great for the Great Lakes sailing I do. I use it to show direction, speed, and lat/long location - the unit is very accura
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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 01/03/2002 :  09:44:43  Show Profile
thanks for the response. i have been playing with the e-trex and starting to understand it's functions. i have done some tracking while driving in my car. i entered waypoints manually from my present marina to where we are going to keep invictus this summ
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Response Posted - 01/03/2002 :  10:47:49  Show Profile
Well, your talking to el-cheapo here.. According to the CCG, I'm required to have a set of paper charts onboard, which cost a pretty penny to begin with, so I manually key in the main co-ordinates I'm heading for into my GPS which are usually markers/can
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Tony Dillon
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Response Posted - 01/03/2002 :  11:08:38  Show Profile
A fast easy way to find your position on the paper chart with your GPS is program in the position of the compass rose near where you sail as a way-point, then set the goto setting on the GPS to the rose. The GPS will give you the distance and course to t
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Response Posted - 01/03/2002 :  12:40:21  Show Profile
Good idea ! But I'd guess this only works on the homestretch, or if you can travel a straight line from your current position back to home (the rose co-ords). If your course requires a few linked course vectors to dodge islands and shallows, then you n
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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 01/05/2002 :  08:07:56  Show Profile
I am sorry guys but what is the "compass rose"?

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/05/2002 :  12:09:26  Show Profile
Rick - it is that lovely pink flower printed on all charts! It shows the cardinal points relative to the chart, and has an inner circle with magnetic bearings and an outer circle with true bearings. You use it in conjunction with a two piece folding ruler
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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 01/06/2002 :  10:22:58  Show Profile
Derek,
Thanks for the chart reading 101. I thought it might have been something in my gps. It's been 30 years since my USPS course. I probably need a refresher course, since the mind is not as quick as it used to be.

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Response Posted - 01/07/2002 :  08:37:50  Show Profile
It is possible that you will lose your waypoints if you remove the batteries from the unit as the unit has a rechargeable lithium memory battery. I would recommend putting a fresh set of batteries in the unit and check them every 3 to 4 months. I would
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