Hi All,
The other day I was out windsurfing and happened to lose my fin. The water is clear and about waist deep.
I was wearing a RipCurl GPS watch (www.ripcurl.com.au/mens/watches/surf.html) and was logging my trip. I know that this particular watch is not the best for application (windsurfing), but it gives a detailed journey of where you went and went the quickest etc.
Now, I would like to use it to locate where I lost the fin, and the exact co-ordinates would be really handy. All the GPS app gives me is a line on Google Earth, not the co-ords.
Does anyone know how to download the file anywhere to get that? Or, has someone been in a similar position and done something different and had success?

Thanks in advance!

Gregg

Select to expand quote

Greggo25 said..
Hi All,
The other day I was out windsurfing and happened to lose my fin. The water is clear and about waist deep.
I was wearing a RipCurl GPS watch (www.ripcurl.com.au/mens/watches/surf.html) and was logging my trip. I know that this particular watch is not the best for application (windsurfing), but it gives a detailed journey of where you went and went the quickest etc.
Now, I would like to use it to locate where I lost the fin, and the exact co-ordinates would be really handy. All the GPS app gives me is a line on Google Earth, not the co-ords.
Does anyone know how to download the file anywhere to get that? Or, has someone been in a similar position and done something different and had success?

Thanks in advance!

Gregg

Hey Gregg, if you can get you track loaded onto Google Earth, zoom in to the spot to the maximum and then rest the mouse arrow on the exact spot you want. On a desktop/laptop* down at the bottom of the screen should be a read out of the exact co ordinates lat/long.
*(I dont know if this works on mobile devices though)

I've tried to use a file from a GT11 to locate a fin in chest deep water.
It's not easy getting back to the precise spot.
You have the error from the original reading plus the error from the new reading put the 2 together and you have a big patch of water to scan.

Still on a nice summers day it's worth a look

A friend of mine lost a fin at Budgie, six months later I decided to have a look for it. I got his file from KA72 and looked for the spot where he fell off. I used Google earth to get the coordinates and put these into my GT31 as a waypoint. Then navigated to this waypoint on a SUP. The last 50 metres or so are really difficult as it is quite confusing to work out which way you need to go. I took with me a stake to mark my search start point. The weed is super thick so I had no chance of seeing the fin although the water is only 50cm deep, I made a searching tool, which was 4 nails in a piece of wood attached to an old broom handle (imagine something similar to a garden fork).
Once I had located the spot I starting stabbing the fork into the mud, after 10 or so stabs I hit something solid, I dug into the mud and up came the fin, the brass inserts needed some work, but otherwise all good.

You might be wondering how the fin came out in the first place, Previously he had borrowed the fins bolts for another board (leaving the delta fin in the board) and had forgotten to put them back. So after 2 or 3 runs the fin fell out.