A [brief] end to magnetic variation?

You can do it with your eyes shut

Relying on digital mapping can erode your traditional navigation skills. Could a refresher course be the answer? Alex Roddie joins an Austrian Alpine Club-organised course in Eryri to find out

WILL OXLEY ON NAVIGATION FUNDAMENTALS

Like all good things that happen to us, it was an accident I started writing pilots for the Mediterranean. It all began when I was skippering a flotilla around the Saronic and eastern Peloponnese in G

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Andrew Simpson looks at pendulum servo self-steering gears, and describes how to get the best out of them