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Default judging current; rules of thumb?

jlrogers±³© wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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Shaun Van Poecke wrote:
Here's one for those of you out there without onboard
instruments/knotmeter/gps....

Is there any reasonably accurate (say, within a know or so) way of
judging the current, when you are under way, and there are no fixed
objects within sight?

Shaun

No, there aren't.

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jeff


Yes, there is.

OK, please explain. Maybe this will bring Jax out of the woodwork to
tell us that Einstein proved that dead reckoning is impossible.