Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
But when you can't see where you are going in the fog (see photo) you better bring a GPS along with you if you ever want to see land again.
Meh; if you can paddle a straight line, it'll never be more than 350 miles on Superior.
What I find the GPS handiest for is quick planning; I don't remember all the back roads from here to Weatherford, but I can have a complete route with cue sheet in about 3 minutes from OSMand, then pull it up at need to get back on the route if I take a wrong turn or detour around a problem. It also tells me things I might not otherwise know about the roads near the route, like whether the town a sign points out 2-3 miles off the route is just a named chunk of road with a half dozen houses, or actually developed enough to have a gas station.