"Horvath" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:36:09 GMT, "Per Elmsäter"
wrote this crap:

Real sailors use nothing but digital charts. It is folish even to have
paper
charts as backup. What if they get washed overboard for instance, or
eaten
by the ships rat. No it is much safer to have a redundant system of
digital
charts.

You're an idiot. My charts are kept in the nav station, where they


Navstation. Holy mackerel. What do you think you've got? An Atlantic
freighter. Charts whether paper or electronic belong where the helmsman can
see them and nowhere else.

can't go overboard, and there are no rats on a good ship.

You're correct. You're a rat and you don't have a good ship.

What do you do if your batteries all go dead?


Real sailors don't let their batteries go dead. There is absolutely no
excuse for that to happen.

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Perre

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