outstanding.....we left Port Isabel Texas for New Orleans one night and I told my relief captain he had to do the trip with a Fathometer, a chart, and a compass.....and nothing else.......he looked horrified ......but he did it and he was dead on the entrance bouy and he felt like a million bucks afterward....
The Vikings used to carry a cage full of crows onboard when they were out looking for new lands....and what they would do is release a crow every day....and if the crow circled the boat and stayed close to it they would know no land was near by...and if the crow took off, they would get a line on its path relative to the sun and follow it to land....it's how they found Iceland[/QUOTE
The compass and a chart! That crow story is amazing. The original flight from Bermuda to JFK, so to speak!