I take the weather over the SSB and I'm close to it's origin. Not really. Maybe 20% of the time just for anymore. As for the sextant, that isn't even fun anymore. You talk about time consuming. Maybe time consuming's not the right word. Tedious is maybe more correct. I still have the HO249 tables but haven't bought an almanac in years and never went the calculator route. So, pretty much to your question, no and no. The boats on the hard getting some work done right now. That's why I'm posting so much.