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• Primitive navigation techniques being preserved (link) (pic)
  • Taking a "moon sight"???? ;-) (nm)
    • Noon Sights
      • lunar sights
    • Local apparent noon (LAN) Noon Sight, Meridian Passage, (link)
      • At my level of expertise, I wouldn't even consider a lunar sight. :-) (nm) (link)
      • Steve - If you turn off the GPS ad use it on a passage, you will be surprised . . . (pic)
        • Oh I did it for three years. I checked my work
          • Truth be known, we "hit the button" pretty often too, and . . . (pic)
            • Yeah, It's no fun to call it nav-a-guessing with a GPS. :-) (nm)
          • Also (link)
            • The sad thing is that I can't count the number of
              • Is that due to
                • Oh, for sure it's the charts. Dan on
                  • smart (nm)
                  • An Excellent precaution.
                    • I guess you could make the case for one connected to
                • Inaccuracies of charts.... (link) (pic)
                  • You mean like this? (pic)
                    • GOOD on them!!! (link)
  • Yes you can do a moon sight...references
  • Are you familiar with Dr. David Lewis' "We The Navigators" . . . (pic)
    • Thanks for the reminder it's enroute to me now
      • Shapes on the Wind is out in E-book. . . (pic)
      • Try "The Last Navigator" by Stephen Thomas (link) (pic)
  • Cool, (link) (pic)