Welcome to the NavList Message Boards.

NavList:

A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding

Compose Your Message

Message:αβγ
Message:abc
Add Images & Files
    Name or NavList Code:
    Email:
       
    Reply
    Re: Jack London: author and navigator
    From: Howard G
    Date: 2021 Dec 19, 20:13 -0800

    Reminded of watching "Great Train Journeys" - and they were covering Canada - Edmonton to Casper - and spoke of the great explorer 

    David Thompson who surveyed a huge area of Canada - and they showed him doing a sun shot using a false horizon as he he was way up in the Rockies.

    And I think I have found the drawing of the picture.

    My marine sextant is under the Xmas tree - as is the false horizon from Davis also (came in from Amazon real pronto)

    And have just had Bob Swartz put aside an A8-A Bausch & Lomb - reconditioned USAAF aero bubble sextant - enabling me to shoot anywhere, anytime - 

    Can anyone tell me if the following are useful

    Dad was bomber command WWII - Wellingtons and Mosy's - he had in his library a couple of very old books

    Hughes' Tables for Sea and Air Navigation - 1946 - It has a very good fairly serious introduction on spherical trig - until I digest that (which will give my brain a hurry up but luckily was good at maths) 

    And Noirie's Nautical Tables 1944 

    May be they are just good keepsakes? And I will just use the newly arrived Reeds 2022 Astro-Nav tables

    Howard G

    File:
    2021-12-20_14-45-36.pdf
       
    Reply
    Browse Files

    Drop Files

    NavList

    What is NavList?

    Get a NavList ID Code

    Name:
    (please, no nicknames or handles)
    Email:
    Do you want to receive all group messages by email?
    Yes No

    A NavList ID Code guarantees your identity in NavList posts and allows faster posting of messages.

    Retrieve a NavList ID Code

    Enter the email address associated with your NavList messages. Your NavList code will be emailed to you immediately.
    Email:

    Email Settings

    NavList ID Code:

    Custom Index

    Subject:
    Author:
    Start date: (yyyymm dd)
    End date: (yyyymm dd)

    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site