jeffies, if you "navigated" through fog off Maine using just an RDF, either you
didn't understand just how lucky you were, or you were purposely trying to kill
yourself.

RDF gets you "kinda close" but that's about it. It is good for know
approximately where you are.

So, did you understand the danger you put yourself in or didn't you?

btw jeffies, why your claim now that you are willing to blunder around blindly
in a fog along a rocky coast where in the past you claimed EVERYone needed a
sextant as a backup in case "all the electronics went bad"

btw-2, we did indeed have a gps etc but we knew enough not to trust the charts
as close as we were going. If we didn't find the light where we expected to
find it, we would turn around. We found it. you, on the over hand, claim you
just blundered on.

you were lucky, dumbass.

and, it appears, to this day you don't know it.


Hey jaxie, you're the one who had three GPS's and Loran and was still afraid
of
hitting the "rocks" at Cape Hatteras. You even showed a picture of the surf
ten
miles away from the light to show how dangerous it was. Your first comment
on
the experience was that it would be impossible without a GPS!

I used to cruise the Maine coast, often going 30 miles off shore and making
landfall in the fog with nothing more than a Ray-Jefferson RDF. I also
carried
a paper "lifeboat sextant" but had little occasion to use it. You, on the
other
hand, are scared ****less of being within 10 miles of shoals, even with 3
GPS's
on board! If you just learned how to read a chart and use a compass the
world
wouldn't be such a scary place, jaxie!



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
dougies and jeffies and others seem eternally worried about NAVIGATING AT
SEA
without triple redundant gps's, RDF, working C. Plath sextant, Almanac,
chronometer and SSB for time clicks.

This sailor -- who has sailed something more than a Hunter 19 or training
wheels -- thinks a single cardboard beer box is enough.

"When we asked what Babe would use to navigate, he pulled out a crude
astrolabe-like device he made from the cardboard from a beer box. "With
this,
I
can get my position, without tables or a watch, to within 60 miles."

see link for more of the story:


http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicL...#anchor1085433