Star of India Navigation

[@goodq]

Excellent video. Short and packed full of amazing information. Thank you so much for sharing this !

[@budandbean1]

Just found this series on the Star of India and I'm just in awe of the sailors being able to sail her. I wish we had something here in Florida like her. This is so great watching someone actually set the sails, tack and jibe a beautiful great ship like this. I also love putting the older navigation tools to use. I've taken some classes but navigation just isn't the same unless your life depended on it. Thanks so very much for these productions, that are wonderful!

[@kayjohnston779]

Yes, a very informative vid. My father and a friend of his went to California in 1936 and due to a shipping strike,were unable to. Complete s planned trip to Hawaii. To bid their time they signed on as volunteers on the Star where they were able to do work on the rigging, the hull and the interior in exchange for room. And board. It was a highlight of my Dad’s life of which he often spoke. I have had the great pleasure to tour the Star about 2 years ago and was thrilled to find this video showing the Star at sea. On Utiube. Thanks for posting it.

[@gormauslander]

I would love to cross the atlantic navigating like this.

[@josephlai9759]

Thank you so much. Your video captured real time navigation as it is done routinely on ship across ocean. I enjoyed the vernacular nature of explanation by the good captain borne obviously from deep genuine experience. Very creatively done, I must say.

[@glenwalls2685]

I served as a KC-135 navigator I. The 1979-1980 time frame.we regularly trained for celestial navigation with 3 star fixes on about a 45 minute schedule. We also trained for Polar navigation with a free running gyroscope. Grid

[@glenwalls2685]

North was parallel to the prime meridian. Nav computers and systems like inertial and GPS were still in the future.

[@glenwalls2685]

We also used pressure pattern navigation when over water. Using a radio altimeter, we determined the change in absolute altitude between fixes. Entered in an algabraic formula, it would provide a measure of the displacement right or left from the true air path. All of this kept a navigator very busy back in the day.

[@glenwalls2685]

My first trip to Europe I 1976 was two 3 star fixes and a sun line between coasting out from St John Newfoundland and making landfall at Santiago Spain.

[@billhally6009]

Earth is not a globe. Look up the US GS map or Gleasons map. That’s what’s really happening

[@MRREE-zw6xc]

I was wondering if there would be a flat earth person in here. And here you are lol. May I mutually ask you some questions about flat earth? Like what are stars to you and how does the sun work on a 2d plane? How does flying work if you were able to fly nonstop true north to south ( or east to west) circumnavigating the earth to your orginal point of departure. Wouldn't we supposedly run into some type of wall? Or barrier that ends the edge of earth like a video game map or something? Just curious. Not trying to start a battle. I just wanna here it from the horses mouth of what a flat earth person actually thinks. If your a troll... good job haha. If not you have genuinely struck my curiosity.