In this site I talk about all methods of navigation that are practical on small craft. That covers navigating by buoys and with chart and...
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Modern Navigational Tools
The tasks of modern navigation are the selection of the safest and most convenient&nb...
The passion for the sea. Something you can’t study on books.
The passion for the sea. Something you can’t study on books. A challenging year has gone and still it’s hard to see the light on the...
Solar storms: what they are and why they can cause a planetary catastrophe
Late August 1859: the telegraphs stopped working, the northern lights were visible as far as the Caribbean and Rome. What caused all this? A very...
An Instrument for Solving Spherical Triangles
CASELLA & CO, CIRCA 1886the lacquered brass instrument with four scales and verniers signed on the machine-tooled plane CASELLA & Co...
The Globe Star Voyage
Who but a madman would say publicly that he planned to sail a brand-new, untried boat-hauled overland from Canada just twenty days earlier without...
Care of Sextant
Since the sextant is so important an instrument in navigation, it should be handled carefully and treated well. It is delicate and therefore easily...
The Story of the Apollo Sextant
Over the course of a decade, the Apollo program (in addition to landing humans on the Moon six times!) produced an incredible array of technical...
Navigation
NAVIGATION is the Art which instructs the mariner how to conduct a ship over the wide and trackless ocean, from one port to another, with the...
A Look Back and a Look Ahead
We have considered how the mariner stays in the safe water when land is in sight and how new electronic devices give information of various sorts to...