Our navigation information cup runneth over. What a difference from our first cruise in the 90's. We had a "GPS Receiver" that told us our position. We marked it on a paper chart--based on cartography from Captain Cook (I am not making this up). It was the new-fangled thing then. Grizzled veteran sailors said it would spoil world cruising sailing. Too many noobs who didn't know celestial navigation and proper piloting would be tempted to sail the world now.
Seems like that's a common sentiment with newer technologies. In one of Plato's works he has Socrates arguing against writing, fearing it would weaken the memory of the young people of the day. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes!
Thank you! In aviation we have a saying that a good landing is anything you can walk away from and a successful flight is one where the aircraft remains airworthy. Maybe the same is true of an ocean passage!
The "Control Center" photo looks like quite the set up!
Our navigation information cup runneth over. What a difference from our first cruise in the 90's. We had a "GPS Receiver" that told us our position. We marked it on a paper chart--based on cartography from Captain Cook (I am not making this up). It was the new-fangled thing then. Grizzled veteran sailors said it would spoil world cruising sailing. Too many noobs who didn't know celestial navigation and proper piloting would be tempted to sail the world now.
Seems like that's a common sentiment with newer technologies. In one of Plato's works he has Socrates arguing against writing, fearing it would weaken the memory of the young people of the day. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes!
Ha! I love that. Socrates would have ruled Twitter.
Congratulations on a successful passage!
Thank you! In aviation we have a saying that a good landing is anything you can walk away from and a successful flight is one where the aircraft remains airworthy. Maybe the same is true of an ocean passage!