The Navigation wrikles I am about to Devulge to you are that of cobat vessels piloting, seamanship of Coastwise Navigation and Celestial Navigation.
Rules of the "Road"
When both side lights you see ahead, Port your helm and Show red.
Green to Green, or Red to Red, Perfect safety, go ahead.
When upon your port is seen a passer's starboard light of green,
There's not so much for you to do for green to port keeps clear of you.
If to starboard red appear, Its your duty to keep clear,
To act as judgement says is proper,
Port or starboard, back or stop her.
Both in safety and doubt,
Always keep a good look out;
In Danger with no room to turn,
Ease her stop her go astern!
A Simple Trick in Piloting
This could be left out but what the hell
Every fighter has a punch or two the are his favorites; every wrestler has a hold or two that are his favorites.
one of the most perfect peices of piloting on record was the feat of Harold Gatty, piloting Wiley Post in the "Winne May" around the world in Eight days. Like every good navigator, Harold Gatty ised many tricks of the trade. He used contact piloting, dead reconing and celestial navigation. However, ther was one particular simple trick of piloting which was one of his favorites.
The fact that Harold Gatty could call his shots and always hit his objective on the nose amazed Wiley Post. It was not until Nearly the end of the journey that Wiley Post discovered Harold Gatty's little favorite trick of piloting, and when he did he exclaimed, "if it is that simple, I will make this trip around the world alone." Wiley post did just that tow years later, but it must be remembered that he who has been ober the route once has a big advantage over he who has never been over the route before.
What was the favorite trick of harold Gatty, and how can you use it in small boat operation? Assume, for example, that you are in charge of a boat to transport Commrados on the raid from a destroyer some thirty miles offshore the the beach. Your objective where you aer going to land your party of commandos is a chrch steeple. You are given the magnetic course directly to your objective, but on arriving at ther beach you find no church steeple.
What should you do? Should you run along the beach to the right or left until you pick up your object? Which way is the church steeple?
If you are right-handed, you will probly turn to the right and run along the beach looking for a church steeple. However, let us assume also that when you first hit the beachthe church with its steeple is hidden behind a sand domefrom your veiw just a little to the left, and now that you have turned right and are running along the beach to look for the church, you ar running away from your objective with every revolution of the engine.
After you have gone a considerable distance, you realize that the church could not have been to your right, so you turn around and retrace your steps. You lost considerable time retracing your steps,coming bact to the original point where you hit the beach, provided you did not in the meantime fall int the hands of the enemy.
In this little trick of piloting you merely lay down a course definatley one side or the other of your objective. For example, you might lay down a course wich is defanatly a half mile or mile to the left of the objective.
Ok I am going to have to overt this to another newer book that is mer suited for this. stay tunned for more