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How to get to a Waypoint without hitting the rocks in between

9:08 PM Tue 28 Sep 2010 GMT

'Tonga Fanua Tapu Pass - your boat is not where the electronic chart says it is...' .

Let's begin with an example. Recently on our NauticEd flotilla with the Moorings to the Kingdom of Tonga we wanted to pass through the Fanua Tapu Pass which is a gap in the reef to get to the eastern islands of the Vava'u archipelago. Normally the gap is marked by a series of buoys, however the latest storm ate them. The pass is well documented by two waypoints. Traversing using a GPS map, however, was out of the question because Tonga, like many other places in the world, is not accurately placed on the world coordinates. In other words, your ...

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