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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (224030)10/14/2007 11:15:21 AM
From: Alan Smithee  Respond to of 794382
 
I took a US Power Squadron course in navigation some years back, when I was setting out occasionally on the salt water. Back then, it was Loran, not GPS, but you still needed to know how to plot a course then (and still do). Funny thing about GPS is it doesn't tell you where the rocks and shoals are (unless you have a fancy-pants system with marine charts built in). Even then, it's good to know how to read a chart and plot a course. Electronics do fail sometimes.



To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (224030)10/14/2007 2:27:54 PM
From: Neeka  Respond to of 794382
 
Ha Ha........we did a one year sabbatical, living in a little waterfront rental on Pickering Passage across from Hartstene Island back in '75. We found out that Fish and Game released pheasants every Wednesday at a nearby wildlife preserve........we had a freezer full. I wasn't in to mycology then, so missed all of those good meals. I have very fond memories of the area...........that is where my husband proposed to me.


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