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Longitude without Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Francis Chichester
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In 1964 during the second single handed transatlantic race Colonel H. G. Hasler in Jester lost the correct time and, having no radio, could not get a time check. Thus he could not obtain the longitude but, being a fine seaman and practical navigator, made a landfall on Nantucket light-vessel by a method used by old sailing ship skippers. This was to position himself on the correct parallel of latitude and sail due east or west to the destination.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1966 , pp. 106 - 109
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1966