Sailing safety - the good old fashioned way...

4:01 AM Mon 24 May 2010 GMT

'Good old fashioned binoculars' .

MOST OF US who are beyond our teens or early twenties, will pick up a cell phone and marvel at its capability to do what we saw as futuristic science-fiction only a few of decades ago. This palm size unit can be used to send text messages, take pictures, play music, store data, possibly be a GPS and even make a phone call. This incredible technology can easily transfer to the boat and along with other "doohickeys", be integrated into one impressive computerized navigation, communication and operations system that runs the whole show. But, do we ever wonder what happened ...

Click here for full story.

by Canadian Yachting