September 21, 2019
While we’ve been away from Legacy, we’ve been keeping an eye on her. We left the GPS on and we look at her position on Marine Traffic. I was surprised to see her change berths and called the marina to see what was up.
“Nope, still in the same berth as always” was the answer. What’s up?
Here are the results on Marine Traffic over the past four weeks or so…
Possible causes:
- Inaccurate GPS reading. This move is within the normal error range of a GPS, but it makes me realize that navigating a narrow channel with GPS alone is probably not a good idea.
- Inaccuracies with Marine Traffic. This could be, I guess, but I’d have no way to know.
- Error with Google satellite images. I don’t think this is likely with the back and forth movement I’m seeing. I would expect any error to occur when the map is created, not when it’s displayed.
Of these, I think that the first is the most likely. That or our marina manager is taking Legacy out for joy rides and his memory isn’t so good when it comes to putting her away! 😉
-Rich
