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Maine Cruise Log:
2004
 General Log Notes
Welcome to our 2004 Maine cruise! After a season away from any
substantial cruising, we were thrilled to have the opportunity to spend
another four weeks cruising the beautiful coast.
This year, in addition to
photos and trip information, I have included both overall daily route
charts and, uniquely, chart images showing our exact anchoring or
mooring position at each of the visited harbors. These NOAA chart
snippets and position information are courtesy of the navigation program
The Cap'n Voyager, which, through a PC, can be interfaced with the
onboard GPS. I generally use the program only for planning
purposes, and to calculate each day's route. It is so easy to
create routes on the computer, and to then download the completed
route--and all its waypoints--to the GPS, rather than manually entering
the information to the GPS. I am completely and utterly spoiled, I
am afraid!
Anyway, through lots of
computer and Photoshop time, I have tried to offer this interesting
graphical addition to the logs. Click on the daily route and
harbor chartlets
to enlarge them for viewing. Note that the program shows the
ship's course as due north when there is no actual movement and course
data, so the red arrow in the charts always points straight up when
showing the position of the anchored boat. The daily route charts,
in some cases, had to be reduced in size to an extent that details of
the charts are no longer discernable--typical of the longer days'
routes. (Full size was frequently as high as 4000 pixels wide,
which is just ridiculous.)
USAGE
NOTE: Some of the daily route charts, when expanded, are very
large files and may take some time to download, depending on your
system. Not recommended for you poor souls using dial-up--sorry!
Also, there may be large areas of white space on the full-size versions
of these charts, so be sure to scroll around till you find the actual
charts.
Please
enjoy, and I'd love your comments.
Please click here to
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