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The way I recall the Boy Scout method was to use a tall stick, and scribe a
circle in the dirt around it. Boy Scouts carried a compass and that was how
N and 1 was oriented. Then it was just a matter of dividing the circle into
12 ths or more.

The shadow pointed at the time.

Joel Jacobs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Allen" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: Watch into Compass?


> On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Royer, Doug wrote:
>
> > 1. Emergency or lifeboat Navigation
>
> This is an interesting topic.  In a recent book on survival which I
> bought, (a US Air Force Training Manual entitled "Search and Rescue
> Survival Training" AF publication 64-4 which may be online as a PDF),
> there is some good material on emergency navigation.
>
> One technique that is presented which I remember learning in Boy Scouts
> is using a watch to determine North or South.  In the Northern
> Hemisphere, one points the hour hand of a watch at the sun, and then
> the midpoint between the hour hand and noon is the direction of South.
> In the Southern Hemisphere the midpoint would point to North.  If
> Daylight Savings Time is observed by the watch, then one hour should be
> subtracted from the actual time for the hour hand pointing.
>
> I seem to recall somebody declaring this procedure useless, but I do
> not remember the details.  Is this okay for emergency navigation?
>
> Dan
>

   

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