Before longitude at sea, that was the method (not the RDF); sailing to the correct latitude and then east or west to the destination. That's what the knotted line and stick were for.RonWild CheriC&C 30STL
--- On Tue, 1/29/13, Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> wrote: From: Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> Subject: Re: Stus-List Sextant To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 11:30 AM We used a sextant to find Bermuda in 1980 and it was a major PITA. In rough seas on a small boat getting any accuracy beyond maybe +/- 15 miles is doing very well. Just taking the sight and not falling overboard or dropping the sextant was an accomplishment. We ended up running a latitude line north of the island until we picked up the radio beacon on the RDF and followed that in. Joe Della BarbaCoquina -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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