Real Nav: Dealing with Navigator's faulty estimates

[les green01]

thing is he suppose to be a retread from ww1 and serve on merchants has a navigator suppose to be excellent but can't find the mens room if sign pointed the way if a reading seem off to me have him redo it and lso check it for myself no more 500 miles off course and end up slamming into land for me

[Drakken]

Originally Posted by les green01

thing is he suppose to be a retread from ww1 and serve on merchants has a navigator suppose to be excellent but can't find the mens room if sign pointed the way if a reading seem off to me have him redo it and lso check it for myself no more 500 miles off course and end up slamming into land for me

However, we as players were spoiled for a long time; past SH games always gave us a 21st-century GPS-perfect position. Real Navigation removes that certainty. It takes a while to accept that, unless you have visible landmarks as reference points, any and all readings in the middle of a body of water have a margin of error and are, at best, informed guestimates.

That is why I tend to go with what the Navigator gives me unless it is patently obvious his readings are erroneous. In theory my calculations tell me I should be there, but boats drift even when going on a straight course and constant speed for a long time. As long as I do not find myself in the Bermuda Triangle but in the vicinity of where I calculated I should be, this would be good.