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Electronic navigation

The plotter position looks precise, but depth and visual marks disagree. What is the safest role for the electronics?

Short answer

Use it as one understood aid, protect the boat, and cross-check the mismatch with independent evidence

Electronic navigation supports planning and monitoring, but apparent precision is not proof. When important cues conflict, maintain lookout and control, create margin, then compare the source, settings and route with genuinely different position, depth, visual and time evidence. Revise Electronics as Support.

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The plotter position looks precise, but depth and visual marks disagree. What is the safest role for the electronics?