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Originally Posted by Corsair
have to make an estimate of your speed/heading) Remember the scene in "Das Boot" : "It's been 14 days since we could make a sun measurement, I had to compute"
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Hehe, yes that happened to me on my first real nav patrol. I was forced to wait dead at dead stop until the weather cleared. I had sailed for about 9 days in stormy weather without the chance of a fix. Was off around 200 Km off the estimated position because of this.
Superb
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