It had to happen and it's probably not the first but, being the dinosaur that I am when it comes to apps and such technology, I might as well have been on the backside of the moon.

Don't get me wrong. I love all the modern gear that wasn't around when I was learning to sail. But I love it with an innate wariness of what can go wrong.

Chartplotters are absolutely brilliant right up to the moment the p...