Wansworth
Well-known member
Having more or less mastered getting a boat to sail I went to evening classes and battled with the tides off the Casquets and the Alderney race to get to Cherbourg,never really succeeding from one week to the next although in later years I plotted my way round Gibraltar for my Spanish certificate.It seems to me and I am probably wrong that it’s much easier to put to sea as the major stumbling block,navigation and DR etc are replaced by a knowledge of how a chart plotter works,one of the major fears of setting out on the sea is immediately solved no more worrying about entering a port in the dark as it’s all presented neatly on the screen.Maybein the slower gaining of navigational knowledge new sailers might be more wary of other skills that need to be learn.