The first time I crossed the Atlantic the captain made us do the whole trip using a navigation technique called “sun run sun”. It’s the simplest means of navigation at sea using a sextant. After 21 days at sea when we first sighted land again, we were just a few miles off from where the gps said we were. That felt good! Using the stars is actually quite tricky, without going into to much detail, you need to be able to see a clear horizon to measure accurately a particular stars “height” above th
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The first time I crossed the Atlantic the captain made us do the whole trip using a navigation technique called “sun run sun”. It’s the simplest means of navigation at sea using a
Sunshine and Green. Sunshine and Green · Original audio. The first time I crossed the Atlantic the captain made us do the whole trip using a navigation technique called “sun run sun”. It’s the simplest means of navigation at sea using a sextant. After 21 days at sea when we first sighted land again, we were just a few miles off from ...
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