Articles tagged with 'sextant'

After our long journey from the Caribbean you'd think we'd want to rest up for a week or so before starting our passage back to mainland Europe. However, we have decided to forgo the Azore vacation and get going on our final leg. It's almost 1'000 nm from here, through the Strait of Gibraltar and on to Spain. That sounds like a lot even as I'm writing this but after reaching the...

Simply the best book on Celestial Navigation there is. A classic written in 1950 that is still more than relevant today. This book is credited with making celestial navigation more approachable for the layman sailor. It's a bit difficult of a read but well worth the effort.

OK, so Celestial Navigation seems 'old school' in the world of electronic navigation using Chartplotters, GPS and the like. But, when you are sailing, you have all kinds of time on your hands so why not take some time to learn this skill? Before all the modern 'stuff', people have used sextants for navigating and it's fun on a passage to take some readings to see how close you are to...