PBO Almanac

[Gunfleet]

I have just thrown away last year's small format almanac, and when I did I realised I'd barely opened it since purchase. My Garmin plotter contains accurate enough tidal info plus all the marine services phone numbers and addresses, I even have a copy of tide plotter on my phone. I'll keep replacing the almanac - I'd feel naked going to sea without - but I wonder if sailors of the younger generation will eventually simply abandon the practice of keeping this time honoured document on their boat?

 

[Shipwrecked]

Never!

I still class myself as young at 37: the fear of wet electrics, international navigational satellite or system sabotage, the reliance in someone elses calculations etc etc will always take second place in my navigation process.

In fact I'm off to study celestail navigation!

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I'm with you on that one... I'm also 37, and I would never trust myself entirely to electronics....

My biggest concern is to keep occasionally calculating a tidal height or secondary port by hand to avoid the risk of forgetting how to do it!!!!!

 

[Sea Devil]

Interesting - I am old in comparison to you guys and I trust electronics a lot - got a fixed and hheld gps... + spare batteries got a gps card into the lap top.

Used to carry my sextant and walker log and tables in the last boat - now they are all in a 'display' cupboard at home. Got the paper charts (out of date) and tidal stream atlas)

GPS is not going to get switched off - if all circuits in boat fail I have the hheld gps and if that fails my area of doubt is 4 hours sailing - England North - France south. I think DR works - pretty well.

 

[michael_99]

My car is full of eletronics, car gets wet when it rains.
I'm looking for a back-up wife, in case first one fails. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Every one seems to think that nothings ever happens to a sextant or the books never get wet and the pages never stick together.
The only way to make sure nothing goes wrong, is to stay at home, and that in it self is wrong. The good old "what if".Don't let" what if" run your life. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
If nothing ever goes wrong, what a boring story you have to tell.