Apps for sailing
Navigating the old fashioned way. Navionics app on Samsung mobile. What on earth did we do with ourselves in the days before apps came into our lives? Can I even remember? Let's see. We read books. We navigated by dead reckoning. We waited until landfall to call people. Now it's all immediate. I once joked with a reported who was interviewing me that I learned to scuba dive so I could go on holiday where clients couldn't reach me -- underwater. Yet, it's a bit too true that today we are forever accessible. This cannot be good. However, even I find myself caught up in the app collection craze. When one considers that more than half of responders to a survey of blue water sailors say they have 4 or more devices with GPS on board, you can reckon that dead reckoning is indeed dead. I don’t have an iPad. I have a Samsung android smartphone. They all have GPS now. Even our camera has GPS. Take a picture and you'll know your exact location. My new