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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: The Spirit of this List
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2002 Sep 17, 17:43 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2002 Sep 17, 17:43 +0100
If "non electronic" is taken to its logical conclusion, then quartz watches and chronometers are off limits too... That would almost certainly knock us all off this list! Damned pity as quartz watches are so reliable, so accurate - and so cheap! It seems to me that the vein running through this list has been self reliance. Being able to stay found through the observation of celestial objects and other natural phenomenon and the translation of those observations to a position on the earths surface using equipment you can carry with you. Yours aye, Geoffrey Kolbe.