SATURDAY LECTURE
Fixes, Angles By Bearings And Sextant
There are five good ways of fixing your position (obtaining a "fix," as it is called) providing you are within sight of landmarks which you can identify or in comparatively shoal water.
Put in your Note-Book:
1. Cross bearings of two known objects.
2. Bearing and distance of a known object, the height of which is known.
3. Two bearings of a known object separated by an interval of time, with a run during that interval.
4. Sextant angles between three known objects.
5. Using the compass, log and lead in a fog or in unfamiliar waters.
1. Cross bearings of two known objects.