My New Toy

My lovely and long suffering wife got me a hand held chart plotter style GPS for my birthday back in October, YEAH!

Unfortunately, since then I have only managed to get on the water twice, however the novelty value of the GPS is great.

My aim is to take it out with me each trip and track the course travelled which then can be downloaded to Google Earth - which I have shown in various posts.

The unit can also be set up to communicate with the autohelm to steer a course to various waypoints. This is advantageous over the autohelm alone, as the autohelm will only steer to a bearing, and therefore tends to allow the yacht to track a bit with the current, etc. Whereas, when I get this system sorted, the GPS should correct the course for current.

Anyway that's a job for another day - I'll add it to the list!