Quotes About Dead reckoning

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles.

So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to 'get somewhere' it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves.

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled.

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled. Operating the ampolletas aboard the armada had religious