NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Jun 17, 11:34 -0700
Well, in a life raft with ballast pockets, you aren't going anywhere except with the currrent. If you can pull up the ballast pockets then there is the possibility of moving with the wind instead of the current and, according to military servival manuals, up to about ten degrees from directly down wind if some sort of sail can be rigged. So, depending on the alignment of the current and the wind, some manovering and navigation is possible just like ballonists using the differnce in the wind directions at different altitudes to fly their balloons to suprisingly accurate landing spots.
And not everybody today has an inflatable life raft, some plan to use the dinghy possibly equiped with leeboards, floatation and a sailing rig if in extremis.
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