Michael Neverdosky wrote: >Using normal gear on a sailboat I was more than >happy if my 'triangle'was only 2 miles across. Michael Daly replied: >That's a little more like it :-). G'Day, Well if thats what is achievable with a $1000 sextant it makes our student efforts with deck compass, thumbs or sticks and string look quite cost effective. (900m error over a 10km distance). But I'm guessing the two Mike's error estimates were for navigation rather than pilotage, i.e not using landmarks by Mike's earlier explanation. Would that be the case? In fact I would have thought a kayaker more experienced in pilotage would have made less than half the error we did. By the way has anyone actually tried to use a sextant in a kayak? I tried once with a very cheap plastic sextant. My friends refused to paddle with me until I put it away. They made a number of extremely impolite remarks:~) All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Sep 03 2004 - 02:11:53 PDT
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