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Old 02-26-2011, 04:20 PM   #45
Jay N
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City: Edmonds, WA
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Vessel Model: 1974 Pacific Trawler 37
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RE: Track Up or North Up?

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Carey wrote:Your own view out the windshield is course up as well. I'm just sayin!!!
I*grew up with north-up paper charts, then unstabilized course-up radar displays, then stabilized north-up true-motion radar displays.*

When my wife comes to the pilothouse, the paper chart gets rotated to heading mode, but she doesn't have any issues with the radar mode.

But the other day, she asked if we were planning to go upsound (as in Puget Sound), and I told her, No, we were going to go south.* Wait a minute!* Don't you have to be going north to go up?**

We pretty much leave looking out the window as the primary answer to all no-good-answer questions.*
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