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From: Gordon Talge (no email)
Date: Fri Apr 15 2005 - 13:30:24 EDT
Hi All,
Has anybody read "The Cruise of the Snark" by Jack London?
He has a great chapter called "Finding One's Way About" This is
a quote, "...navigating by observations of the sun, moon,
and stars, thanks to the astronomers and mathematicians, is
child's play." "Any average young fellow can teach himself
in a week."
He goes on to describe how he taught himself navigation and
sailed the Snark from San Francisco to Hawaii with his wife
and a friend.
He does, however make a distinction between seamanship and navigation.
I understand that Jack London died around age 40 in 1916. He
must have lived one heck of an interesting and adventure filled
life. I am kicking up around 50 and I haven't had 1/100th of
his adventures.
-- Gordon
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