Gadget # 2
Recently I’ve come across several gadgets that I think might play a role in boating safety. 1st up was a hand cranked cell phone charger.
Now we turn to a GPS you can wear on your wrist, the Garmin Foretrex 101. It runs on a pair of AAA batteries and even includes a countdown for race starts. It’s WAAS enabled and is accurate to 3 meters. It can also handle up to 30 minutes in the water. Plus it has all the regular GPS features such as waypoints (500), and routes (20) etc. And since GPS is based on time measurement the GPS will give you accurate time while on your wrist.
Particularly when sailing short handed having accurate nav info write on your wrist will be handy. This product is just another step on the road from navigation by say the lunar distance method, to easier and more accurate methods like a wrist top GPS.
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