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SUMMARY:HYC Cruising Group presents: Celestial Navigation
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Captain Jeff Werner\n\nMonday 6th July | 19:30 | Asgard Room\n\nCelestial navigation can be a very intimidating subject for cruising sailors. This presentation\ndemystifies celestial navigation and serves as an introduction for those sailors interested in pursuing\ntheory and practical instruction on this topic.\n\nOver the past thousand plus years instruments and techniques for celestial navigation were developed\nto find the latitude and longitude of any place on Earth. From the Arabian caravan navigator who used\nthe kamal to guide his camels across the desert to the bazaars in Timbuktu\, to the quadrant and\nastrolabe that Christopher Columbus used on his voyage of discovery in 1492. Running down the\nlatitude and taking lunar distances to determine longitude were practical techniques for navigators at\nsea until 1850. Today\, cruising sailors can use a modern marine sextant and the Marcq Saint-Hilaire (or\naltitude intercept) method developed in 1875. Regardless of the instruments and techniques used\nthroughout the ages\, there is one constant: It’s all about altitude!\n\nJeff Werner has been a yacht captain for almost 35 years. He is a certified instructor for the\nRYA\, US Sailing\, MCA and the US Coast Guard. Jeff is a US Sailing celestial navigation instructor and has\ncompleted just under 100\,000 miles of passage making under sail.
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LOCATION:Howth Yacht Club\, Middle Pier\, Howth Harbour\, Howth\, Dublin\, D13 E6V3\, Ireland
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