It's January in Minnesota, my (current) boat is for sale. I'm learning celestial navigation, partly as a mental challenge, and partly as a way to understand history. I find it interesting: the math is easy but the arithmetic is hard.
Reading through some older tutorials and, especially, advice on how to use celestial navigation in practice on a yacht (as opposed to on a commercial or military vessel), it appears to me that actual practice was, well, a little sloppy.
Nominal practice, as...
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Reading through some older tutorials and, especially, advice on how to use celestial navigation in practice on a yacht (as opposed to on a commercial or military vessel), it appears to me that actual practice was, well, a little sloppy.
Nominal practice, as...
Read more