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Date Posted: 17:33:25 07/07/08 Mon
Author: RadioRay (Aiiii-Yeee! Ali McGraw)
Subject: Re: This Being a Discussion Group - Old Ali, Two Reviews of Sail-Cool Tools.
In reply to: A 's message, "Re: This Being a Discussion Group - What Are Your Thoughts?" on 14:16:27 07/07/08 Mon

Thanks for the reality check. It's perfectly natural to grow old, but MAN my memory was of her too many years ago. - Ouch! OK - insert the hottie of the moment and two of her friends in my post script. :^) I'm not quite to the point of bedding a woman I have to call "Ma'am". ha ha ha ha

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Jay, your point about going from 21st century to at best 19th century farming and distribution methods with the whole world scrapping for a fraction of what is needed to stay alive - that's quite a mental image. This with a population of people who've never grown/hunted their own food (or blow the shit out of a 2 pound critter with a thirty calibre boat tail! moo-ha ha ha!) :^) Right now all you have is a schween warmer. Shoot one more and you'll have a pair of fuzzy winter tube socks.


>>>===> How is everyone's navigation? I love the ease of use of GPS, speed of position fix and track checking against current, lee-way etc. I also know that as a MILITARY system, it's availability is questionable should the politicians and their employees decide that there be a need to turn off the unencrypted civilian channel(s) . That dusty sextant and tables is looking pretty good should it come the to worst extreme.

There is also the very likely spectre of war in the massive resource grab Jay mentioned above, in which case the satellites and more importantly, their ground crews and facilities are all prime targets. I spent a few years as a conceptual warfare guy for a profession and this (and more) IS something talked about quite a bit in those circles. The last group to have fuel will be the politicians' praetorians, but just below that will likely be the world's militaries for quite a while, so advanced weapons can be operating well after the rest of us are using our cars ashore as green houses to extend our growing season.

Two 'cool' things I've found recently:

1. Sven (Lundin) Yrvind developed the "Bris mini sextant". I one in about ten minutes with a microscope slide and crazy glue. I took an hour to make a VERY good one using 'beam splitter' glass from Edmund scientific Company, a scrap of 'somethign' as a spacer and crazy glue. Google it and have a look. The Bris (pronounced Breeze) is a very accurate FIXED angle measurement type of sextant: not variable. However, with an accurate watch and tables, you can locate yourself fairly easily. With ANY watch - accurate or not, (and tables) you could do a noon site with one of these. The Bris is a great 'guerilla solution' for self sufficient navigation at sea.

2. "Emergency Navigation" by David Burch. (2nd edition) This second edition JUST off the press and is the replacement to his long out of print 1st edition. This man is GOOD! He teaches VERY useable methods and best of all he teaches WHY these methods work, so that you can understand the mechanics and improvise as needed. Even if you never NEED emergency navigation, you'll likely love reading his book.

Time for a walk down the docks and a brew.


>RadioRay ..._ ._
s/v Milenka
near Irvington, Virginia - USA

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