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Re: Ocean swells for direction
From: Renee Mattie
Date: 2004 Feb 15, 11:01 -0500
From: Renee Mattie
Date: 2004 Feb 15, 11:01 -0500
From: "Keith Williams"> Dr David Lewis gave details of traditional navigation > in the Pacific in several books - "We, the > Navigators" being the most focussed on this. > ... Lewis says > that the Pacific navigators found that the best way to > sense swells is to stand up and let the swing of your > testes tell you...though that could just be a > cock-and-bull story. Presumably, the modern-day (male) Pacific navigator could refrain from the wearing of Y-fronts while on passage. I wonder what advice could be offered to the female navigator? Renee