Savvy Navvy - Navionics | Navigation Special
May 06, 2021 by Sailing Fair Isle | Language: EN Play Time: 00:26:37 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
The argument goes like this… ‘Charts are old fashioned, unnecessary and difficult to use’ … ‘No charts are essential and it’s unseaman like to set sail without them, period!’
Well I started sailing a good decade before GPS. All my sailing was done with a sextant, RDF and dead reckoning on a paper chart. When I started I was a teenager studying pure and applied maths and preparing for a astro physics degree so celestial navigation was right up my street. I liked nothing better than taking sun and star shots & working out my set & drift to carry plots forward and get that cocked hat as small as possible to nail my position. It was great fun and I could get a calculation done using the air tables or Reeds in minutes.
So what’s my take on navigation at sea now? You may be surprised!
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