On the night of Octoa lookout called out "Breakers ahead". Just before leaving, he mentioned that he decided to get a compass for his boat!Īnother example that goes well beyond simple embarrassment involves a fleet of Royal Navy war ships, as described in Alan Gurney's book "Compass". He did get across, but spent the extra hour finding a familiar point of land that he recognized, finally getting to the ramp. ![]() I retrieved the boat and had it all packed up for the road when my buddy pulled in about an hour later. It's scarey even when you think you know where you are. Even with the GPS I was still a little nervous being surrounded by all that white mist. I felt confident, because I had my GPS and all I did was to retrace my track of the previous day. We were returning to the ramp, but had to sail across a five mile body of water in a heavy fog. I remember the last day of a cruise with a good sailing buddy who will go unnamed. When in cloudy weather they can no longer profit by the light, or when the world is wrapped in theĭarkness of the shades of night, and they are ignorant to what part of the horizon the prow is directed, place needle over the magnet, which when whirled round in a circle, until, when the motion ceases the point of it looks to the North."Ħ.1.1 Prologue - Avoiding Embarrassment or Death “"The sailors, moreover, as they sail over the sea,
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