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Bye Bye Birdie

The Need For Speed

In our last installment we discussed the basic techniques of ocean and coastal dead reckoning, which is determining our location based on our course and

Bye, Bye Birdie: Dead Reckoning

Successful navigation is really just answering three simple questions: Where am I? Where am I going? How do I get there from here? Even when

Three side-by-side screenshots from the Navionics app showing nautical charts of Hell Gate and Wards Island, contrasting a correct manually plotted water route on the left with two flawed AI-generated routes on the middle and right that erroneously plot course lines directly across land.

A Suspicious Plot

I used AI to chart a course through a notorious waterway. The results were unusable.

An exterior dusk photograph looking through the large side windows into the illuminated, warm cherrywood salon and helm area of a Sabre motor yacht as the sun sets over the water.

South by Down East

A brisk November run from Connecticut to New Jersey showcases just how comfortable the Sabre 51 Salon Express really is.

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