I havent bothered with GPS in a while. I've gone through so many devices and they all get either lost or fried. Now, My only device is a solar compass and a watch with a countdown timer. And paper maps for distance races.
And I've only really needed the compass once to get home, it was really foggy.
Bill
And I've only really needed the compass once to get home, it was really foggy.
Bill
The Tybee500 aside, I've made the same transition.
Jake you are correct, and remember that most of the current gps products come with the Mapsource disk included in the package.
Just traded in the 76 I bought last week for a Colorado 400C at west marine
They have it on sale for only $300 after mail in rebate.
After spending $150 on the 76 and looking at spending another $150 for bluechart software it just didn't make sense when I could buy a color gps with all the U.S. coastal bluechart charts already unlocked for $300.
Seemed like quite a deal to me. Came with the waypoint manager cd too.. so we'll be trying to get everything uploaded before the race.
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wc...
Go to the maptech website http://mapserver.mytopo.com/homepage/index.cfm&latlontype=DM S" target="_blank">here . Pan and zoom in, and your cursor will spit out GPS coordinates at the left of the chart.
You'll probably want the marker right north of Jewfish creek for the start, the channel marker at the west side of Angelfish creek for the turn, and the finish day 1 at Anne's beach.
Day two is up to you, but looking at the charts would at least give you the GPS points to figure out your own waypoints.
If I had my Garmin 76 handy, I'd send the coordinates, but it's probably easier for you on the maptech chart.
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we'll just follow the M20
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