Joshua Slocum
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Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about h
From The Century Magazine, Sept. 1899
Slocum's childhood school, now the Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum
Virginia Albertina Walker
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Dead reckoning
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In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading, an
Joshua Slocum
…the Cape of Good Hope, and then headed back to North America. Slocum navigated without a chronometer, instead relying on the traditional method of dead reckoning to establish longitude, which required only a cheap tin clock for approximate time, and used noon-sun sights for latitude. On one long passage in the…
Dead reckoning navigation tools in coastal navigation
British P10 Magnetic Compass with dead reckoning navigation tools