> > For those of you who don't carry a silva style compass, how do you take > > bearings from your chart ??? I just use my deck elastics like a parallel rule or edge of my hand to get the idea of the bearing. Usually I have a compass rose on my chart and just relate it all to that. With practice it has come to work quite well. Other people I have met have used a bit of thin string which they lay over the chart. If I am trying to work out my position on the sea then I tend to find that by getting a few bearings off different marks I can get a good idea of where I am. Then again I also tend to keep an ongoing eye on where I am throughout a trip and keep a sharp lokout for any handy transits. Derek. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 09 1998 - 16:17:39 PDT
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