Thousand dollars worth of navigation equipment isn't going to help you if it goes down, so anyone who does not know how to read a chart and navigate by using time and speed and a compass may as well save their money. BTW, I owned big boats, you can equip a boat with radar and GPS for one heck of a lot less than 40 or 50K. I still maintain electronic gadgets and gizmos are being used as a replacement for skill and I am correct. How many people on land or on water using a gps have the skill to navigate themselves out of trouble if their equipment goes out? Not very many percentage wise. We live in a time when learning the basics is too much trouble, rights of passage are tossed aside in order to get instant gratification and you can see the results every where you look. Why learn anything if a gadget can do it for you. I suspect if we could live long enough we would see the human race devolve to the point where the brain would fit into a golf ball.