On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:51:50 +0100, Justin C
wrote:

In article , wrote:
All your boat computer problems can be solved

... by chucking it all over the side and getting the paper charts out
(those are the ones that the grand-kids used to cover their school
books), winding up your wrist watch, and dusting off the sextant.

VBG

Justin.

No, I'm not at all serious about that. I wouldn't travel anywhere
without at least two GPS devices. However, should I cross an ocean then
I would certainly have a sextant-plus-reduction-tables as a back-up.


And if you drop the sextant over board? Break a mirror?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)