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    SKIPPERS’ TIPS & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

    Mar 26, 2020 4 minutes

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    Sailing by instinct in a digital age

    During the past decades electronics have changed our lives. It also changed the way we are sailing our yachts. We are using digital depth sounders which provide details including up to one or two decimal places. The question is: (a) Do we really need that level of detail and (b) could it be incorrect or even misleading? If the depth sounder is showing for 1.9 metres and your vessel draws 1.8 metres… are you then happy to proceed?

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