Latitude Lice
Last night I spent a few minutes re-reading a couple of passages from Barry Cunliffe’s book about Pytheas the Greek. About 2300 years ago Pytheas…
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Smoke and Sun
This is a picture I took about half an hour ago and it is one of those that might be dismissed by those not trained…
Bovine Headlines
Navigation may fill my working hours, but even I couldn’t pretend that it is a high profile topic. Last week however a story about cows…
An Old Friend
Bit of an early start this morning for a busy day in London, but there was consolation in a constellation. Forgive me. I saw Orion…
A Rich Soup
I regularly find myself balancing the scientific explanations for something, natural observations of the same thing, historical accounts and even folklore. It can be a…
Navigation Courses
A blog is not a blog without an occasional rant, so… It strikes me that the world of navigation training has strayed a little off…
Equal joys, Different Reasons
Everywhere I go at the moment I am reminded of cycles. Not the type that the Dutch and Boris Johnson are so keen on, no,…
Tide and the Big Clock
Time and navigation have a cosy relationship, as John Harrison, inventor of the chronometer that cracked the longitude problem in the 18th Century would attest.…