Back in the day, Loran lines were running parallel north-south by the time you got to Bermuda. It was an easy matter to get a noon sight or Polaris morning and evening and cross it with a TD. In those days there was a lot more to being a delivery skipper than now, and being able to get good sights from a small boat was a big part of that. I still hove to a few times north of the VI waiting for daylight (there were no lights on the north side of the islands then).
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Ronald B. Frerker <rbfrer...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Before longitude at sea, that was the method (not the RDF); sailing to the > correct latitude and then east or west to the destination. That's what the > knotted line and stick were for. > Ron > Wild Cheri > C&C 30 > STL > > > --- On *Tue, 1/29/13, Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov>* wrote: > > > From: Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> > Subject: Re: Stus-List Sextant > To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 11:30 AM > > > We used a sextant to find Bermuda in 1980 and it was a major PITA. In > rough seas on a small boat getting any accuracy beyond maybe +/- 15 miles > is doing very well. Just taking the sight and not falling overboard or > dropping the sextant was an accomplishment. We ended up running a latitude > line north of the island until we picked up the radio beacon on the RDF and > followed that in. > > > > *Joe Della Barba* > > *Coquina* > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com <http://mc/compose?to=CnC-List@cnc-list.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Ave Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ phone +401 965 5260
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