No GPS, No Autopilot: Don McIntyre Launches 2028 Transatlantic Rowing Race to Antigua
Don McIntyre’s Real Ocean Row bans GPS and autopilot for a 3,200-mile 2028 crossing from the Canary Islands to Antigua, echoing a 1966 voyage.
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Sailing with Charlie: Vive La Difference
Charlie’s just started re-reading the 1970s classic: Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance. Among other things it describes the difference between riding a motorbike on long trips and doing the same thing sitting in a car. The former experience has the riders enjoying the wind in their faces, smelling the scents of the…
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Julian Polishes his Astrolabe… Life Before GPS
LIFE … before GPS Forty years ago the Global Positioning System, a satellite computerized mapping system was not even on the horizon, so to speak, for the private yachtsman. If you wanted to cruise offshore you had to know celestial navigation. And the knowledge of this art/science kept many would-be cruising sailors either coastwise sailing…
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Mastering Celestial Navigation: A Guide to Publication 249 and Universal Plotting Sheet – Part IV
Learn about Publication 249 and the Universal Plotting Sheet for Celestial Navigation. Master the art of chart plotting with All At Sea’s guide.
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Celestial Navigation Part III – Tips and Tricks on Sight Reduction
Most books on celestial will offer a ‘simple’ sight reduction form. Don’t use it. Most of these forms are standardized for use with any celestial body, and will contain information not applicable to a sun sight.
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Celestial Navigation Part II – Predicting the Suns Geographic Position
Understanding celestial theory is best accomplished through a series of mental exercises that puts your mind in the real world and gets your nose out of the books and off the charts.
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Celestial Part I Championing a Dying Art
Celestial demands the navigator head offshore for a few hundred miles and, from the deck of a rolling sailboat, aim a bronze contraption at the sun, without blinding himself, while measuring its angle off the horizon …
