wreck in the bay

[Big_Kev]

What's so scary about the manual
Kerry The Old Man Of Sea says "Typical Aussie male waits for things to turn to shit before he reads the instructions"
At least in my case this seems to be true.LOL
Cheers Kev.

[jaybee]

yeh i agree with kev, instructions (manuals) usually turn into destructions, by the time most of us read em
cheers

[Lucky_Phill]

The 170 meters was given to me in a offshore navigation course. ?

The old Hand Helds had 2 digits, OK, so the newbies have three. ?

What was the original question ?

Still, even if I was given a Hand held for " water " work, I would trade it asap, wouldn't even bother to use it. Just my personal opinion. ?

I admire your involvement in these posts Kerry, and agree with you 99.9% of the time. I suppose this one boil;s down to a slight difference of opinion and being set in one's ways.

For the record, my GPS is accurate as I need and have never failed to find a reef, wreck, shopping trolley or Lazy Grinner hanging on the bottom.

BY the way...........OH that's right NSW won. &^%%$##%$%&^&**(()()(&%$##@$ mongrels, we'll get ya's next time

[Kerry]

Phil,

For sure one can't get in the way of personal opinion, it's one of those things. With all the GPS gear on the boat I still prefer using a 1991 model, still as good as the rest and has BIG numbers and that's very usefull these days . Agree handhelds aren't for everybody or every application as it does come down to one's own personal requirements with exactly what they want to do with the thing and where.

It's like the "Which GPS should I buy" question, can't/don't/won't give an answer, I'm not the one using it and don't know the total situation. Some silly questions could be, How blind are you, how big are your fingers .... but enough of that.

The unfortuneate thing is that many of the myths somehow get turned into "facts" and as you probably am aware there's really quite a few of these already kicking around out there.

Do you actually still have a model with a 2 digit "restriction" (in today's world). It sounds like one of the "M" models, if so there has been some software upgrades (for some models) that will fix things.

As for the 170 metres that one beats me (which navigation course ), there's no where in Oz that gets that low. Off the top of my head the smallest shift is around the SW cnr of WA at about 190 metres?

Cheers, Kerry.

[MangroveJase]

Is there a prize for this competition?