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Originally Posted by MAXUM
Those guys had been boating on the lake well before GPS even existed...
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Me too. And yet I find them extremely useful, especially at night. At the very least, they've saved me from buying a couple props.
Once upon a time, I was a fighter pilot with visual acuity and night vision so good that people used to think I was doing magic tricks or something. Now I'm in my sixties, and I need glasses and feel like Mr. Magoo at night. Jim was in his seventies. Hal was in his eighties. They were both hunkered down on a below-freezing night behind possibly fogged windshields and fogged glasses. It's very plausible to me that they would cross-reference a GPS or a nav app on a phone.
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Originally Posted by MAXUM
... Everyone who has been there enough knows the only hazards to worry about in there is staying far enough away from the Pine Island ...
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Hal's boat sank close to Pine Island. It seems likely to me that he had hugged those red-tops south of Pine in order to minimize time in the no-wake zone, and that Jim was planning to do the same. The short-cut funneled them right into each other.