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Fed up with the high prices and small screen displays of today's plotters and charting software? Consider the Yeoman—an electronic shortcut to old-fashioned chart/protractor/divider navigation.

Perhaps the Yeoman system's greatest ad- ûvantage is that you navigate using standard, ûeasy-to-read charts.

Over the past few years, we’ve been reporting on chart plotters and navigation software—some pretty amazing stuff that gets only more amazing each year. You can now not only plan a course, but see where you actually are (on a screen), view photos of the area, check bottom topography, select which chart features you wish to view, and include tide, current and weather information on your display. These advances have taken the art of navigation to an entirely new plane—one that feels, on occasion, a bit like a Nintendo game. …