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Hi

I've not the book of Moitessier at hand but (quoting his notes on navigation from memory):

- he refused to carry a radio transceiver, offered by the race sponsors, because he found it to complicated, heavy and power hungry (Knox-Johnston was not so wise and had several problems with his transceiver);

- instead he used a portable sw radio receiver, powered by batteries; both to get time signals and to listen to BBC broadcast;

- and stated that to CN navigation purposes, with a simple radio receiver to get WWV time signals, a sailor could went around the world with just a basic table clock ....; in fact the Rolex diving clock was offered by the race sponsors and on previous voyages he had used much simpler and cheaper time devices with quite good CN outputs.

However it might be interesting to consider that:

- Moitessier was shipwrecked with all his boats up to, and including, Joshua (a few years after the race);

- emi and rfi noise are now much higher than by the time of the globe race, so nowadays it might be not so easy to get good time signals, daily, with a portable sw receiver.

bw

Jorge