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Originally Posted by kylania
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I do have one question, though: In your diagram you have 330 and 340 on the left, but on the right you have 18 and 24, rather than 20 and 30. Why is that?
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The 330 and 340 matched up with the shoulders of the front port watchman but on the starboard side the "corner" and the radar were better visual landmarks so that's what he marked. I think?  |
Yup, simple as that. Wasn't so much going by regular points each side, but by identifiable marks.
@Steve. True (re eyeballing between easy 0/90 etc thus eg splitting for 045) enough and which is what I've been doing, just looking to improve my spotting a bit. And in RL doing it all the time (and having much better 3D perception to assist) they must have become pretty good at tagging the bearing. I suppose (not having the experience of it) that a lot of the time it was sufficient to tag a target as being eg on the port bow or quarter, or abeam. In other situations, I guess a more precise tag (give or take) on the bearing might have been necessary.