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Re: from a watcher
From: Dave Weilacher
Date: 2002 Oct 23, 08:12 -0400
From: Dave Weilacher
Date: 2002 Oct 23, 08:12 -0400
Read a book called "Survive the Savage Sea". It is a story of a family whose sailboat was attacked by whales. The boat sank within 2 minutes. They took to a liferaft and dinghy. It doesn't go into the details of navigation nearly as deeply as I would have liked but the man's navigation skills and understanding of his environment were obviously prolific. The underlying concept of virtually every survival course is to place you in a hostile environment with nothing but your knowledge and skill. (And, oh yeah, your forms to tell you what to do next). I use forms all the time and have no real argument against them. However, I'm not sure why anyone would argue against becoming proficient enough to do without. > [Original Message] > From: Cliff Sojourner> To: > Date: 10/23/2002 12:35:13 AM > Subject: Re: from a watcher > > Mike, > > > I look at these tables as part of a convenient "lifeboat kit". I.e. what's > > the minimal kit you'd need to do lifeboat navigation? They do require a > lot > > of steps but the tables are very compact. That's the trade off I guess. > > this gave me a laugh, isn't lifeboat navigation an oxymoron? how does one > navigate a typical liferaft (inflatable, water ballast, parachute anchor > too)? sorry never mind if you meant one of those big orange 20-man > lifeboats for ships. > > nice postscript sight reduction form, thanks for sharing > > Cliff --- David Weilacher --- U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Captain OUPV-889968 -- ASA certified Sailing and Celestial Navigation Instructor #990800 -- IBM AS400 RPG Contract Programmer #1