First up there were the people met, such as Tom Cunliffe (above) giving a talk at the World Cruising Club stand on how you can sail away for less than you might think. We had a very brief chat about Greenland which we both had recently sailed to.
Immediately after him was Will Stirling (below) talking about the expedition to row to the magnetic north pole (among other things). At a previous boat show I met the expedition leader Jock Wishart. Will is currently aiming to sail around the offshore lighthouses of Britain in a dinghy.
And finally there was the chance to catch up with Stokey Woodall who I met last year and who gave a talk on celestial navigation including the star clock. I told him I'd worked out why the answer was 41.5 and promised to email him its derivation (which I did).
Those four chats were an excellent start - but what about the boats....?
And why is it 41.5? We discussed this question on your original star clock post but I don't think we got any sensible answers then. Some of my readers seemed to be obsessed with the number 43 for some reason.
ReplyDeleteOh sorry. I see you did write a post about it. I missed that.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I see that I even commented on your derivation post. I must be losing my memory.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant piece of work. Would make a good Cambridge Scholarship Exam question! If there still is such a thing.
You must have been hit on the head by a .... what's the thing called?.... begins with a "B", swings across, hard, you know.
ReplyDeleteHappens to all of us.
Not to rowers it doesn't. One of the big pluses of oar power.
ReplyDeleteBut, Chris, there must be the equivalent downside to rowing? Subject for a blog post?
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