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Doug, I do sights using Dip Short in the harbour or anchored in small coves;
natural horizon either on shore points near here, or anchored out in the
Strait; and natural horizon running during our cruises.  My sights are out
by about 0.5-4 miles using Dip Short and natural horizon on shore or at
anchor, and by about 2-6 miles while running.  I don't know why I practice
CN, except as a distraction from the stresses of my real job, and a love for
the skill.  I'm getting a bit long in the tooth to make the circumnavigation
that I dreamed about my whole life, but never got around to.

I really want to give the sextant a try on blue water some day.  I've been
trying to find a way to get to sea on a 2-4 week ocean trip, either a
passage on a commercial ship where I could keep my own DR/CN plot and then
check it against the ship's log at the end of the trip, or a leg on a
cruising sail or powerboat.  I'd take leave from work, and then the family
could meet me at the end of the passage for a holiday before returning home
to reality.  Any suggestions welcome.  Do freighters/tankers take passengers
these days?

Jim Thompson
jim2@jimthompson.net
www.jimthompson.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Royer, Doug
> Jim,
> One of these times you're on the "lunch hook" and practicing try to use a
> short horizon in your sighting proceedure and practice working
> that out.It's
> interesting and may come in handy at sometime in the future.
> Is it your goal to become proficiant enough, or I should say comfortable
> enough, through practice and averaging to rely on a single cut of each
> object taken during a session to reduce for LOPs with confidance?
> Or do you
> believe even if you're at the confidance level you desire to still use
> averaging proceedures to gain the needed LOPs?

   

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