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Re: Impressed with the Raft Book
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jan 28, 13:50 -0500
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jan 28, 13:50 -0500
If you're interested in this, you might want to look at Sea Survival by Dougal Robertson. He was adrift in a life raft and then wrote this afterward. Steve Callahan, who drifted for 76 days carried a copy of this with him and referred to it many times. It has a somewhat different slant than Gatty's book, but is interesting.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:45 PM, <mike.boersma@gmail.com> wrote:
I have read "Finding Your Way..."; I have only seen the snippets of "The Raft Book" posted here.
The Raft Book is intended to be a self contained navigation manual.
Finding Your Way is not quite as ambitious, but it does have some good information on using the sun to navigate (there are tables on using the amplitude of the sun to find direction in a more simplified way than using a sextant, an almanac and doing a sight reduction. Gatty also does a good job of describing using the stars to find time. It would be a good addition to your library for that price.
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