Don’t you ever go out in that thing again!” So screeched my mother that spring day in 1949 when I first paddled my recently constructed “umbrella canoe” and returned soaked and sniffing. My grandfather...
Read MoreThis is the yearly presentation of data used for astronomical navigation at sea. Except for 27 pages of ads, it contains the same data and format as the edition produced by Her Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office (UK) and...
Read MoreEveryone talks about the rules, but nobody does anything about them. If you’re about to head to sea and you haven’t memorized all the rules, lights, sound signals, and dayshapes, you may be in for some exciting...
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