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Academy warns on GPS unreliability
ok, I agree – but thats because when we sailed to Hawaii in 1990 we didn’t have GPS… ‘When in doubt, can YOU drag out the sextant and take a position?’ . In a recent release by Sail-World.com Leisure sailors and other mariners could find themselves in trouble if they rely totally on GPS systems [...]
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Sailing the Seven Seas – Google Earth Blog
In 1990 when I sailed to Hawaii, we didnt have GPS or Google Earth for our family and friends to track our passage…. I just read this post from Google Earth Blog and PatiCat. Its a good read… Although we had GPS and electronic charts for navigation, I regretfully did not have a direct interface [...]
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Innovative Weather Forecast
Welcome to Theyr.com Delivering precise high quality, low cost weather forecast data to our user groups through easy to use yet detailed web interfaces and software applications. Theyr.com (‘thear’.com) remains at the fore-front of numerical weather forecast model technology. We provide various levels of live forecast data that can be accessed at any time, from the [...]
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MarineTraffic.com
Ok, this is a very cool website resource for finding and tracking marine traffic globally or in your local area..have a look at the Marine Traffic project ! This web site is part of an academic, open, community-based project. It is dedicated in collecting and presenting data which are exploited in research areas, such as: [...]
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