Video Killed the Radio Star
Holiday office party has squeezed my day so look for more detail tommorow...but you should really take a peek at this article in which maxi skipper Sean Langman insists that technology is "killing sailing." I've not been privy to the sort of high-end push button technology (aside from the odd winch) that Sean regularly encounters on modern maxi's. Still I have to agree with his point and oh by the way, have you ever been offshore and wondered what might happen if the GPS shit the bed...it's called "dead" reckoning.
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The term "dead" reckoning actually comes from an abbreviation often used in ship's logs for deduced reckoning. They would spell it de'ed reckoning. Not that you wouldn't have already known that, but I just read it today in a Chapman book and thought it was interesting.
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