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Watching the boat like a hawk and still ran aground; even with magnify and "eliminate other boats" switched ON. Here's a question:
My thought was that your actual boat was at the base of the main mast and in close quarters, that little crosshairs was your position. That's why it can look like your hull is touching land and you still move if the mast is over water...
This didn't work today for me or for the admiral (Newcomer 47)...and looks like Capn Gadget got snagged, too....so how do we know exactly where our boat is when running close to land?
__________________ Rick
Alabama's Gulf Coast
Chaparral 240 Signature (Sold)
En raison d'un pic de frequentation trop important nous ne pouvons vous fournir le contenu demande pour le moment. Merci de bien vouloir patienter et de ressayer dans 15 minutes.
Toute l'equipe de Virtual Regatta s'excuse pour la gene occasionnee et vous souhaite une bonne navigation
En raison d'un pic de frequentation trop important nous ne pouvons vous fournir le contenu demande pour le moment. Merci de bien vouloir patienter et de ressayer dans 15 minutes.
Toute l'equipe de Virtual Regatta s'excuse pour la gene occasionnee et vous souhaite une bonne navigation
you appear to be going 16.8 knots headed 179
__________________ Shad--
170 Million people have died implementing Karl Marx's ideas...
If you want a meaningful revolution, start with the 'journalists', then the lawyers.
wonder whether there're a bunch of small islands that aren't on our screen but are in the VOR computer?
I was miles south of that little island and now I'm aground again.
One thing that's all my error is that you can't measure a course vector in close quarters; you just have to wait 10 minutes to see what your track is...and by then it might be the old STOP sign.
__________________ Rick
Alabama's Gulf Coast
Chaparral 240 Signature (Sold)
wonder whether there're a bunch of small islands that aren't on our screen but are in the VOR computer?
I was miles south of that little island and now I'm aground again.
One thing that's all my error is that you can't measure a course vector in close quarters; you just have to wait 10 minutes to see what your track is...and by then it might be the old STOP sign.
Yep I just hit one barely west of the bigger one in the middle of the channel
12deg 39 min e
55deg 54 min n
__________________ Shad--
170 Million people have died implementing Karl Marx's ideas...
If you want a meaningful revolution, start with the 'journalists', then the lawyers.
So much for them setting the best course for the start if you don't check in. 40 miles in the wrong direction and now i've got to go straight down wind.
__________________ Pete
MaColAh II
95' Mako 225 dc
03' Yamaha 225
So much for them setting the best course for the start if you don't check in. 40 miles in the wrong direction and now i've got to go straight down wind.
You only get the best course for the first 20 minutes or so then you hook up with Botarate and it's the pits
__________________ Shad--
170 Million people have died implementing Karl Marx's ideas...
If you want a meaningful revolution, start with the 'journalists', then the lawyers.
I am running out of patience. Bottom line is it was a fun game but the software has not been able to keep up with the growth of the game. I will still watch my boat but not as often and with the same enthusiasm I once had.
I am running out of patience. Bottom line is it was a fun game but the software has not been able to keep up with the growth of the game. I will still watch my boat but not as often and with the same enthusiasm I once had.
You're absolutely right. It went from fun to frustrating. I managed to hang on pretty well this morning, almost until that big ass bridge, but then just got tired of trying to adjust my heading or update my position and being told "Please wait'. PLEASE WAIT to change your heading? Sorry, that ain't got nothing to do with sailing.
I ran around once, too, or an
'incident' I guess it was called. And I ran aground because the software would not let me change my heading.
So, around 1500 or so this afternoon I lashed the tiller headed South ( my favorite direction) and the missus and I went ocean kayaking and sailing for real for the next three hours. THAT's why I almost ended up in Denmark, by the way.
