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A Great Celestial Navigation Course

Celestial navigation has the reputation of being complicated, obscure and, depending on your relation to mathematics, bordering black magic.

What is the following number in this sequence: 3, 6, 9, … ?

This is what four inches of paper maps look like.

Here is a great video by the channel Waterlust explaining tidals forces at work.

Kirsten Neuschäfer has rounded Cape Horn and is leading the race.

I need better shoes.

I was searching on rudder removal procedures and came accross two useful videos (below).

Here is a great video from la Fabrique Culturelle on sailboat production in Québec (french only). We can see Jean-du-Sud for a few seconds.

« I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas… »

Jean-du-Sud travels extensively. Here is an interactive map showing her main voyages.