Ships Blog Single Posts
Previous Post <<<------>>> Next Post
Date:Thurs, 27 May 2022 01:50:00 GMT
Sextant
We found a nice sextant
Today we were looking at sextants and were about to spend a bunch of money
on a new one but Hannah said to check "Town Dock" online here in Oriental.
So I put out a wanted add. In about 20 minutes I received a text from a
wonderful man in the area who was selling three of them. I love amazing
stories and interesting people! I'll post more about our conversations
later but we have a Sextant now.
I'm not sure why we trust modern tech to the degree that we do. If there is
a power failure on your boat, if you get struck by lightning how are you
going to navigate without electronices? A sextant and paper maps. I for
one believe in having a backup plan. We used sliderules, maps and sextants
for hundreds of years and we toss them out in 10 years because we have
electronics. This is not wise.