Elementary school: if the 'go to' button fails, what will you do?
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Skippers should know how to operate their boats without the use of modern electronics. Although parallel rules, dividers, formulas and a pencil may be seen as crude ways of navigating, they are foolproof methods that are immune from electrical glitches and the possibility of the Y2K computer problem.
Publication Name: Yachting
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0043-9940
Year: 1999
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Furuno GP35 DGPS navigator
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Furuno USA Inc's GP35 DGPS Navigator is designed with an eight-channel, eight-satellite parallel tracking receiver with built-in differential. It also features soft, large keys that make entering easy even when cruising at high speed. It is priced at $895.
Publication Name: Yachting
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0043-9940
Year: 1998
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How reliable is your radar reflector?
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The owner of a Packet 38 reports that three commercial vessels failed to detect his boat on their radar in a heavy rainstorm even though his boat had a passive radar reflector.
Publication Name: Yachting
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0043-9940
Year: 1993
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