Can you guys imagine INVENTING this stuff?!
It wasn't done until the nineteenth century. Thank heaven for GPS!
It wasn't done until the nineteenth century. Thank heaven for GPS!
where are you when you have this information?
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GPS (good plastic sextant)
Listened to a Furled Sails Sailing podcast a few weeks ago where a guy had a GPS back in the early eighties. Good Plastic Sextant. I have been playing with one for the past few years. Not long ago I finally got a really good Russian made CHO sextant. With my Davis I could get within about 10 miles. My new one was on the dot on my very first sighting. (I really think it was more luck than skill) Josh Slocum even took it to the next level where you only need a good almanac. No clock needed. He used Lunars. I think the website someone referenced below talks about it.
Listened to a Furled Sails Sailing podcast a few weeks ago where a guy had a GPS back in the early eighties. Good Plastic Sextant. I have been playing with one for the past few years. Not long ago I finally got a really good Russian made CHO sextant. With my Davis I could get within about 10 miles. My new one was on the dot on my very first sighting. (I really think it was more luck than skill) Josh Slocum even took it to the next level where you only need a good almanac. No clock needed. He used Lunars. I think the website someone referenced below talks about it.
Remember slide-rules?
I used to get them down to four decimal places. But that was all I could do. Forget the science stuff. I was in high school looking at and chasing girls.
I used to get them down to four decimal places. But that was all I could do. Forget the science stuff. I was in high school looking at and chasing girls.
i still own a slide rule.
I have it in its leather case hanging on my office wall. I put a label on it. It says "Open Incase of Power Failure."
I have it in its leather case hanging on my office wall. I put a label on it. It says "Open Incase of Power Failure."
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