I know this is slightly off topic and has little to do with celestial navigation but I managed, when my navigator was severely wounded, to dead reckon my way back to base guestimating the time period traveled and course setting from the last DR fix. I then started setting new course lines from rhe guessed fix mark on the map and measured them and used the distance/time equation and started heading down my course lines at such and so speed for such and so time duration and at the end of that line changed course to the new heading I thought was good. When I figured I should almost be at my base and hit land which I then could follow, the Navigator recovered. I did a celestial fix and it turned out that I was 80-100 Nm from where Celestial said I was.
I did feel a little proud. Even with that much of a difference.
Ashi.
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