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Re: A Sun-compass landfall?
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2021 Apr 11, 21:40 -0700

David Pike said "Yes, if you increased the Sun compass azimuth reading by one degree every four minutes making a further allowance for your rate of change in longitude, you would maintain the same heading."

But that is what you do with a sun compass. You are effectively saying that a sun compass is useless as a navigational aid...!

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