shen, gene, over the knee, jeffies, et al when faced with the reality that one
CAN NOT determine position using just a compass and a knotmeter, have decided
to change the definition of deduced reckoning to include -- in addition to the
compass and speed through water information -- the position of known marker
bouys, known depth contours, known sounds from shore, known smells from shore
and any and everything else that might tell them where they are. They don't
wish to call this by its given name, which is pilotage, but rather keep
insisting that it is dead reckoning, as in dead on a known position with solid
accuracy, all determined by use of just a compass and a speed through water
indicator.

dumb squats, they are. lucky, so far, but nevertheless dumb squats. It seems
that once took a USPS course and won't let go.

It should be illegal for any of them to ever have possession of an EPIRB. Let
Darwin improve the gene pool.