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Forum: Navigation

30-10-2012, 10:59

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By captain58sailin

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I once googled Ancient Navigation Instruments, and the different tools that came up were both beautiful and useful, I also learned that the Celtic Cross was actually used by the priests for over land...

Forum: Navigation

29-10-2012, 17:55

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By captain58sailin

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

To true. Good idea. 1989, I once met an Englishman in HI, who had built a 32' sailboat from a bare hull up, and sailed from England to HI using only the plastic sextants, after meeting him, I went...

Forum: Navigation

29-10-2012, 11:31

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By captain58sailin

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I have a lanyard on my sextant to prevent dropping it on the deck or overboard, it is the same sextant that my family used in our ocean voyaging during the 70s, it was also used in several ocean...

Forum: Navigation

28-10-2012, 07:22

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By captain58sailin

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Prior to the advent of GPS, plenty of us went sailing, using superior navigation skills including a compass, and planning skills that are still in use today. The push button method was not available,...

Forum: Navigation

27-10-2012, 19:23

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By captain58sailin

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Not quite Rakuflames, when we left Seward, Alaska, none of us knew celestial navigation, by the time we got to Seattle, we all knew celestial navigation. To be sure we had many years of dead...

Forum: Navigation

19-10-2012, 20:51

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Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

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Posted By captain58sailin

Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

A prudent marniner never relies solely on one method of navigation.

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