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It's the Yachtmaster Ocean, and as far as I know you're allowed to use GPS on your qualifying passage you simply have to take some sights whilst on passage to p
by gchadwick 11y ago
It's the Yachtmaster Ocean, and as far as I know you're allowed to use GPS on your qualifying passage you simply have to take some sights whilst on passage to present to the examiner. I think they also allow for cloudy weather preventing any sights from being taken and allow you to present some from another trip.
There's some controversy there too as to whether it should be left in the syllabus. Personally I think it's a nice thing to do, there's something very pleasing about producing a fix especially when you do fun things like producing a running fix from sun and moon sights.
- Robadob 11y ago> I think they also allow for cloudy weather preventing any sights from being taken Is there not a modern equivalent of the medieval 'sun stone'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)
- sethrin 11y agoKnowing the direction of the sun to within a few degrees is unlikely to help much. For one thing, you have no other "fix", and for another, an error factor of a few degrees probably represents an error of a few hundred (nautical) miles. You should probably read a bit more about celestial navigation to understand the problem.