NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2016 Mar 19, 01:27 -0700
Slocum/Spray cost correction.
Apologies. $553.62, (not $1000 as previous post) + 13 months hard labour. Still, worth spending an extra $15 for an accurate repaired chronometer( a "good one"), I suspect?! But Slocum clearly knew from years of practice that he could relie on accurate DR so took the $1 tin clock instead, leaving his chronometer at home,"where the Dutchman left his anchor" (whatever that meant then?)
A tragic modern example of this stubborn refusal to spend even small sums on potentially life saving equipment was a recent loss of 2 local fishermen in a 28ft fishing boat that capsized in a gale off Lizard.They did not have an EPIRB (cost about £150 then) and so emergency services were not alerted for several hours. Too late.
Francis
