Look at the boot top on this yacht. The lower interface of the white line is parallel with the water. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership (Annual Payment) or 1 …
Electronic Beacons
Here’s a safe line defined on the chart by a distant transit that’s notoriously difficult to spot. The answer has been to plot a waypoint on it. To access this post, you must purchase The …
Cyclonic
Here’s a term we hear from time to time on the weather forecast. But what does it mean? Cyclonic conditions are usually found in the centre of a low pressure system away from any fronts. To …
MARPA problems?
Many sailors with modern radar have spent installed MARPA (Mini Automatic Radar Plotting Aid). To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership (Annual Payment) or 1 Year …
Short foreign fingers
British marinas might be shamefully expensive, but at least the finger pontoons are generally long enough for the yacht. This is often not so elsewhere. To access this post, you must …
Single coordinate GPS
It’s natural to think of GPS in terms of a full fixing system or a means of tracking to waypoints, but waypoints take time and effort to input and it isn’t always necessary to go to the trouble of …
