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Watch keeping - modern and traditional
From: Jackson McDonald
Date: 2017 Apr 19, 21:43 +0000
From: Jackson McDonald
Date: 2017 Apr 19, 21:43 +0000
The is one of a series of YouTube videos posted by a young merchant marine deck officer from Hong Kong.
At about two minutes into the video, he talks briefly about using traditional navigation (paper charts and sextant) in addition to electronic navigation. The ship possesses a nice C+P sextant --- so nice that it appears to be new and perhaps seldom used.