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--- Anabasis  wrote:

> I was just wondering what people use to plot their LOP's and lay
> down their course lines?

As someone who moved over to marine navigation from the aviation world,
the Weems plotter was most familiar to me and easiest to use (though I
also had experience with parallel rules from Navy service days).

Being someone who likes to experiment (and try new ways of doing
things), over the past few years I've managed to accumulate just about
every plotting tool in the Celestaire catalog: square protractors, a
couple of the Bi-Rola plotters, GPS plotter, 3-arm protractor,
protractor triangle, Plotfix, and the Chartkit plotting board
(hopefully I didn't forget anything...  ;-)), though I don't have any
experience with any of the Linex items.

And I just ordered the Paralock plotter over the weekend because it
claims to make plotting GPS fixes easy.

Can't say that I have any particular "favorite" of the lot, it's pretty
much a case of whatever tool is the right one for the job du jour.

That and the usual assortment of drafting tools (dividers, compass,
etc.) pretty much round out that part of the navigation kit - but from
a practical standpoint all of that is usually replaced by a laptop
computer and Navigator software.  :-)

--
GregR






> I was just wondering what people use to plot their LOP's and lay down
> their course lines?
>
>   Here in the US Merchant Marine, we are partial to a pair of
> navigational triangles, a compass, and a pair of dividers.  We use a
> straight edge or a long pair of parallel rulers for the long lines,
> but that's about it.  I was wondering what other tools people might
> be
> using?
>
> Jeremy
> >
>


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