T&T: GPS error

[John Baker]

I guess I am an idiot then.  I have taken a leak with the autopilot on.  I have done the number 2 thing with the autopilot on.  Heck, I have even taken a shower with the autopilot on.  Obviously, this was not within the confines of a channel but it was in a large bay.  These were managed risk events.  There was not a boat or obstacle from horizon to horizon.  One of my bigger navigational errors was hitting a channel marker after telling the autopilot to go exactly to that channel marker.  I was at the helm when it happened.  But my face was burried in the stupid laptop.....heads down(if you are telling the autopilot/GPS to go to something, make sure it is not a solid object....:-)).  Lucky for me, it was a floating nun and not a fixed mark.  So let's not be so quick to judge.  MISTAKES WILL BE MADE.  The trick is to make sure those mistakes don't turn into accidents.
   
  Trawler on,
  John

       
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