Over that past few years, and with the Global Positioning System now an accepted World-Wide phenomenon, digital navigation has become a fact of life in cars, aircraft, and at sea.

It is surprising that we in the sailing community have been somewhat slow to accept the new technology, one reason being that many sailors have in the past gone to some trouble to learn and master conventional navigation technology, and are “comfortable” with the functions, equipment, and challenges of the older systems.

Of course learning new skills, and particularly those which involve a fair knowledge of computers and peripheral equipment, can be a challenge too far, but we at D-Tech feel that too much reliance on “manual” systems and the slowness associated with conventional “fixes”, together with the inevitable deterioration in the charts in use, will eventually lead to a considerable upsurge in demand for the latest technology.

Night passages become less fraught with danger, positions are shown to an accuracy unheard of by manual position fixing, and a huge mass of peripheral data becomes available in real time, with waypoints being set-up “on the fly”, and distances calculated instantaneously and with great accuracy.

D-TECH CAN SET UP YOUR NAV. SYSTEM IN 1 HOUR!