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Response Posted - 10/25/2005 :  22:22:58  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by JimB517</i>

You'll love having a properly mounted compass, unless you're just some lake sailor, even then it improves the boat. Do hook up the compass night light to the bow light circuit.
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Just Some Lake Sailor Jim? With that theory, I could make a case for no one anywhere needing a compass. It doesn't take a lake to sail in any one direction and hit land, it can be done in any body of water on this planet. Take a look at a globe and pick one point (in the water) and then select any direction(0-360) and travel in a straight line. You'll hit land without a compass and I'd bet 80 percent of you picked a body of water that wasn't a lake.

Even inland lake sailors need a compass to dead reckon their position.

Anybody who sails far enough off the coast (North, South, East, or West) where they can't see land should have a compass. And beyond that, all sailors should have some sort of directional device - Fog can be just as debilitating as being off the shore 11 miles, or in a storm.

I have to also side with Brooke. You want something that will work for about 10000 more years. Odds are, whether its connected or not, your GPS will be shot in a lightening strike unless you have it in a safe box or bag. They can get wet, fall it, get smashed, have batteries die etc. Even though the poles are going to switch, I'd bank on my compass.

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Edited by - Champipple on 10/25/2005 22:24:37
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