[Bonemaker]

Oh well, back to shooting the stars...probably don't even teach it anymore.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Annapolis dropped stellar navigation as a requirement for graduation. It is still required to join the sailing club. I worked with a guy who had retired from the “Coast Guard”. He was a Coast Guard Academy graduate who was deployed as a navigator on Navy vessels. The Navy needed navigators so badly they won’t let him go, and the Coast Guard wouldn’t promote him because he was merely a navigator. He finished his 20, but with no real prospect of advancement if he stayed in. No good deed goes unpunished.

[outofsalt]

My first GPS was a gray plastic sextant.

[Delta 21]

The last ship I was on, I loved the look on everyone's faces when the Bull Snipe announced on the bridge that I needed to borrow a sextant to complete my celestial navigation course. (The Skipper looked perturbed at their unwillingness.)