Geez Before I bought a bike computer, I used to manually calculate my miles per hour. Using miles ridden in time elapsed was most accurate, but sometimes I would estimate it by using crank rpms and gear ratios. THAT was more of a pain to do.
4 miles? You want an exact mph but without a gps you hve no idea of your exact milage. If it is that important to know how fast you are going - buy a GPS. I find it a great tool to have on the water. I have an inexpensive hand held one and find it very useful on the water for reading currents and for navigation.
Knots are useless on inland waters The fact that you travel by boat is irrelevant with respect to what units you “should” use to report your speed. If the only maps available of your waterways are scaled in miles (and that’s true for most of us), then determining your speed in knots only guarantees that you will THEN have to do some math to translate that to units that makes sense when applied to the map.
Oh, but “knots” sounds more nautical My husband came back from a guided day trip on Lake Erie and used “knots per hour”. I wanted to gag. The usage had nothing to do with maps. It was purely for show.
works great. Even better when I remember to bring it.
I paddle this run almost every morning lately. it is the Lake Murray dam which is exactly two miles across if you paddle to the 2nd buoy at the end of the beach side of the dam and back. I know this because I purposely charted it to be 4 miles with the GPS!
This just made me dust some cobwebs off. And made my head hurt.
