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George Huxtable wrote:
> Does our group deliberately restrict itself to "traditional navigation",
> whatever that may be? I would hate to think so. There are (in my view) good
> reasons to limit discussion of GPS, as an enormous separate topic on its
> own, which has supplanted other navigation and has its own forum. But we
> happily deal, sometimes at length, with other applications of modern
> technology; and why not, indeed?
George, I would hope that this group would discuss ALL aspects of
navigation, from ancient techniques to modern ones, from kamals and
lunars to self-compensating electronic compasses.   I like to learn of
new technologies but I am also fascinated by the solutions to problems
people developed in earlier times (think steam locomotives vs diesels or
sail vs power ships).   As I'm sure you've observed, there are however a
few troglodytes on the list that seem to think that the use of any
post-1800 technology for navigation will certainly fail, causing ship
and crew to die a horrible death.

When this thread on self-compensating electronic compasses started, I
knew very little about them except that some of them had the
drive-in-a-circle technology for self-generating an internal deviation
table and automatically applying it to their displays.  I've learned a
lot about the technology since this thread started a few weeks ago.
While equipping my own boat would be very far down on any list of
desired "toys," it's good to know about the technology.

Lu

Lu

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