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Re: Navigation system failure
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2020 Jun 1, 22:41 +0100
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2020 Jun 1, 22:41 +0100
One of my regular crew once tried to count the number of GPS devices on my boat. He missed quite a few, including one in a camera. The most accurate however was in my Samsung Galaxy phone. It was the first device I had that worked with Glonass. No shame in falling back on a phone for GPS. I am only going to need to fall back to celestial navigation off shore when no GNSS signals are available. Then you can start counting how many quartz clocks I have hidden on the boat. Bill On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 18:16, Bob Goethewrote: > > While reading https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-52852377 I came across this delightfully suggestive sentence about a sailboat wandering the Pacific during the Covid-19 lockdown: > > "Worryingly, the navigation system has broken so they are navigating by iPhone." > >