If you decided you wanted to become a sailor-man, you’d plan ahead, right? Getting a boat is obviously the first thing you’d do, but stuff like nautical maps, a compass, navigation gear and so on is also important. Yes? Not for this guy.

See, the man bought a boat and on the very same day decided he wanted to visit his friend in Southampton. He lives in Gillingham, so its a fairly hefty journey to attempt without anything but a road map and some fuel. Nevertheless, onward he sailed!

His genious plan was to keep the coast to his right hand side, logic dictating that eventually he would reach Southampton for a beer with his buddy. His sure-fire navigational trick backfired when he ran aground on Elmley Marshes. When he was rescued, the coast guard informed him that he had just been sailing round and round the Isle of Sheppey, an island just off the Kent coastline and only a few miles from his original starting point – nowhere near Southampton.

Apparently he was also surprised when the boat munched its way through all the fuel he had thought to take with him – apparently his car could do it in one tank of fuel, so a boat MUST be able to. In the end he was advised to just take the train like anyone else would.

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Effektive Map Engine .

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