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Don't lose heart..... - CelNav57 - 03-30-2023
Celestial navigation isn't particularly easy- especially when you're tired and cold and forgot even the simplest of things about it. Sextant...whats a sextant? Oh, I remember...he's a janitor in a church. (sexton)
Here are some words that'll help cheer you in your voyage-
The Great One himself- Nathaniel Bowditch- that great American navigator and mathematician who said the following words;
“Whenever I meet with the words 'Thus it plainly appears,' I am sure that hours and perhaps days of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.”