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Guru
We were sitting out back of Sonas after dark last night when it seems the aliens were landing! A fleet of about eight boats and a catamaran came in behind us with running lights, search lights etc. (Photo and full story in next blog).
We found out next day that it was a newly arriving French boat that followed a Navionics chart route between Fowl Cay and Guana - which simply does not exist. They ended up holed on the reef there.
They are secured now, but folks, no matter how well you have come to trust your chart "packages," especially the downloadable ones for iPad etc. I highly recommend that, when visiting areas where you have never been before, you use well publicised and charted waypoints, no matter how much you may think they add to the route. Dodge Guide, Explorer Charts, MapTech etc. Don't just follow the "dotted lines" when you don't have local knowledge.
We found out next day that it was a newly arriving French boat that followed a Navionics chart route between Fowl Cay and Guana - which simply does not exist. They ended up holed on the reef there.
They are secured now, but folks, no matter how well you have come to trust your chart "packages," especially the downloadable ones for iPad etc. I highly recommend that, when visiting areas where you have never been before, you use well publicised and charted waypoints, no matter how much you may think they add to the route. Dodge Guide, Explorer Charts, MapTech etc. Don't just follow the "dotted lines" when you don't have local knowledge.