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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Paul Dolkas
Date: 2016 Dec 10, 11:06 -0800
I think the safest thing to do in these situations is to explain that your therapist suggested I do this to calm my nerves, ever since I stopped taking my meds.
Paul Dolkas
From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Ed Popko
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 4:44 AM
To: paul@dolkas.net
Subject: [NavList] Re: Is Sextant a generic word?
Once while taking sunlines from the small cliff-side parking lot at Chatham Lighthouse Beach (Massachusetts) a large bus pulled up and disgorged a number of elderly matrons taking some sort of tour. The last one off the buss walked over and and asked me if I was looking for whales. I said no, I was using the sun to figure out where I was. She immediately turned around, got back onto the bus and pulled the driver off with a map and
insisted he show me where I was.
The bus moved on and a few minutes later, a Coast Guard guy who was riding a lawn mower in front of the Chatham Coast Guard station came over and asked the same thing. For him, my explanation was a bit more in depth. He then looked serious and said, "Well, the latitude and longitude is on a brass plate by the flag pole".
At this point, I decided to move on.
