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Subject: Re: from a watcher
From: David Weilacher (daveweilacher@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 08:12:58 EDT
Read a book called "Survive the Savage Sea". It is a story of a family
whose sailboat was attacked by whales. The boat sank within 2 minutes.
They took to a liferaft and dinghy. It doesn't go into the details of
navigation nearly as deeply as I would have liked but the man's navigation
skills and understanding of his environment were obviously prolific.
The underlying concept of virtually every survival course is to place you
in a hostile environment with nothing but your knowledge and skill. (And,
oh yeah, your forms to tell you what to do next).
I use forms all the time and have no real argument against them. However,
I'm not sure why anyone would argue against becoming proficient enough to
do without.
> [Original Message]
> From: Cliff Sojourner <cls@XXX.XXX>
> To: <NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX>
> Date: 10/23/2002 12:35:13 AM
> Subject: Re: from a watcher
>
> Mike,
>
> > I look at these tables as part of a convenient "lifeboat kit". I.e.
what's
> > the minimal kit you'd need to do lifeboat navigation? They do require a
> lot
> > of steps but the tables are very compact. That's the trade off I guess.
>
> this gave me a laugh, isn't lifeboat navigation an oxymoron? how does one
> navigate a typical liferaft (inflatable, water ballast, parachute anchor
> too)? sorry never mind if you meant one of those big orange 20-man
> lifeboats for ships.
>
> nice postscript sight reduction form, thanks for sharing
>
> Cliff
--- David Weilacher
--- U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Captain OUPV-889968
-- ASA certified Sailing and Celestial Navigation Instructor #990800
-- IBM AS400 RPG Contract Programmer #1
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