Macs in Maui

[Spector]

Any Mac owners in Maui that want to meet up and talk boats over free refreshments? Heading over Saturday for a few weeks.

[March]

Thanks for the invitation. You wanted to rub it in?

[dlandersson]

If you fly me over and put me up, I can be a (temp) Mac owner in Maui.

Any Mac owners in Maui that want to meet up and talk boats over free refreshments? Heading over Saturday for a few weeks.

[Russ]

Thanks for the invitation. You wanted to rub it in?

+1

[Spector]

You're all invited. If you get yourself there, drinks are on me. Gotta go, wheels up at 0730

[BOAT]

It might take me a while to get there - 'boat' can only do about 6 knots so it would take a while.

[dlandersson]

It might take me a while to get there - 'boat' can only do about 6 knots so it would take a while.

[Highlander]

It might take me a while to get there - 'boat' can only do about 6 knots so it would take a while.

U,ll just get lost so why not fly me down there & I,ll be ur paid navigator with free room & board & Booze of coarse !! , maybe u can teach me a thing or two

J

[BOAT]

Or at least drive the car - I get lost driving the car all the time. No so much on the boat because everything moves so slow and it's always easy to just point the sextant at the edge sun and I have this little book that tells me where the sun is on any day of the year at certain times. From the book I can tell what my latitude is. Because I live over here on the west coast of California all my sailing navigation is easy - I already know that anything to the east is going to be land - and anything to the west is going to be ocean - the only thing I need to know is how far north or south I am. So just knowing the latitude pretty much squares me up for knowing what coastal city is right over the horizon to the east should I need to slip into port for some reason. So you see, getting around all up and down the west coast is pretty easy with just a sextant and a few charts because it's usually pretty sunny over here. It's the East Coast guys that I admire - not only are their seas bigger but the sky there is cloudy too and that makes shooting the sun a real challenge. You really don't absolutely need to plot the longitude to get to Hawaii (from here) - ancient sailors made small islands in the Pacific for a thousand years before us guys by just knowing latitude. It's risky, but not impossible, because if you hold your latitude you will eventually know you overshot your target and you can turn around. If you know your target is on that latitude you will hit it sooner or later sailing the same latitude. Ships of old had food an water for 2 years so an error did not mean instant death.

Realistically to get to Hawaii a 'real' sailor today who uses small boats with only a few months supply needs to plot the longitude - that's harder - my dad had a chronometer on board that was set to 12 o'clock on zero longitude, (this was back in 1970), so he always knew when the sun was directly overhead longitude zero. From that alone even stupid me was able to fix our longitude at high noon, by counting back 15 degrees for every hour that we were ahead of longitude zero, but my plots were always over a hundred miles too far west or east because there are a bunch or corrections you need to calculate in based on the time of year and your approximate location. When dad did the longitude calculation instead of me the plot was generally within 15 to 45 miles on the east west. That's close enough to know if you overshot Hawaii.

I assume GPS works in Hawaii? So it probably does not matter. (I don't have a decent watch anyways).

[dlandersson]

Here's how to drive to the big island.

http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3529

Or at least drive the car - I get lost driving the car all the time. No so much on the boat because everything moves so slow and it's always easy to just point the sextant at the edge sun and I have this little book that tells me where the sun is on any day of the year at certain times. From the book I can tell what my latitude is. Because I live over here on the west coast of California all my sailing navigation is easy - I already know that anything to the east is going to be land - and anything to the west is going to be ocean - the only thing I need to know is how far north or south I am. So just knowing the latitude pretty much squares me up for knowing what coastal city is right over the horizon to the east should I need to slip into port for some reason. So you see, getting around all up and down the west coast is pretty easy with just a sextant and a few charts because it's usually pretty sunny over here. It's the East Coast guys that I admire - not only are their seas bigger but the sky there is cloudy too and that makes shooting the sun a real challenge. You really don't absolutely need to plot the longitude to get to Hawaii (from here) - ancient sailors made small islands in the Pacific for a thousand years before us guys by just knowing latitude. It's risky, but not impossible, because if you hold your latitude you will eventually know you overshot your target and you can turn around. If you know your target is on that latitude you will hit it sooner or later sailing the same latitude. Ships of old had food an water for 2 years so an error did not mean instant death.

Realistically to get to Hawaii a 'real' sailor today who uses small boats with only a few months supply needs to plot the longitude - that's harder - my dad had a chronometer on board that was set to 12 o'clock on zero longitude, (this was back in 1970), so he always knew when the sun was directly overhead longitude zero. From that alone even stupid me was able to fix our longitude at high noon, by counting back 15 degrees for every hour that we were ahead of longitude zero, but my plots were always over a hundred miles too far west or east because there are a bunch or corrections you need to calculate in based on the time of year and your approximate location. When dad did the longitude calculation instead of me the plot was generally within 15 to 45 miles on the east west. That's close enough to know if you overshot Hawaii.

I assume GPS works in Hawaii? So it probably does not matter. (I don't have a decent watch anyways).