On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 07:23:50 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:

wrote:

Hell even a sextant and a decent chart should have found something
that was inhabited.

Made me think of the movie All Is Lost. After losing all of his electronics,
Redford sits down with a (previously unused) sextant and a book on
navigation and figures out how to use it. It's not like he or those women
had more important things to do with their spare time.

At the end of 5 months, I'd be pretty good at navigating with the stars.

That movie seemed to be a documentary of all the things *not* to do when at sea.