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[tcm]

Re: not chart-plotter - charts!

How wonderful it must have been it days gone by to arrive somewhere else by sea - that others only could find by land. Or didn't believe even existed. These days if you go to france and back - so what? You had a chart: the clues and rules devised by everyone else who's been before. Let's admit it - there is no greater joy than chartless boating.

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[BobE]

Re: Scented toilet paper

Woodward??? Surely you mean Robbo??

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[Mirelle]

\"The navigator knows of no sensation...

...more disagreeable than that of running ashore, unless it be accompanied by a doubt as to which continent the shore belongs to."

STS Lecky, Wrinkles in Practical Navigation

"In venturing under sail upon strange coasts we are seeing things as our ancestors saw them, in a earlier and a simpler age".

Hillaire Belloc, On Sailing the Sea.

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[Sea Devil]

Re: \"The navigator knows of no sensation...

There is nothing wrong with

'bravely going where others have been before'

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