hallucination said:
I could get all nostalgic about when I first went to the islands, a chart plotter was a set of dividers a pencil and a rule, and some airplane pictures of the islands.

By far the best tool that I have now is an APP called "my radar" on my phone. When I see a little grey on the horizon...that turns black, I can be fully prepared that I have a pretty good idea if it is just a squall, or a dreaded "squatter". You know the ones that just sit there getting bigger...and BIGGER.
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I have seen the most idiocy come from people going into a 50kts blower with full sails and untended dingies. Blown sails, flipped dingies, toppled rigs, blown biminis