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Originally Posted by Kimusubi
Yeah I've been reading compass dude's website. A lot of interesting stuff. I haven't gotten a chance to read the whole thing, but I get a hang of it of how it works. I'm definitely going to start practicing it on land before we go to California, and I'll eventually take the class for underwater navigation. The only problem with taking it now is the time constraint.
Let me get this straight though:
If I start at point A, and I go directly in a straight line to point B for lets say 10 kick cycles, then I go 70 degrees North North-West for 10 kick cycles to point C, and then I take a direct 90 degree south to point C for another 10 kick cycles. Now to get back, I would do ten kick cycles to 20 degrees North-North East, then take another 10 kick cycles at 70 degrees South-South East, and finally take ten kick cycles directly south.
I used no compass for this, simply because I just wanted to get a feel for how it worked. In retrospect, my directions don't really make sense, but if anyone can clear it up for me, I'd really appreciate it.
Here is a LOVELY paint image of how I went through with it. Excuse my poor paint skills and my absolutely terrible scaling.
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You need to work out the azimuths from the turn angles. I never have been very good a counting kick cycles. I prefer working with transit times and my slow. steady constant swim pace.
So, it looks like your x-axis is the east-west axis. So you intend to travel at 0 degrees from A to B. Then you plan to turn to a heading of 340 degrees to point C. Then you plan to turn to 250 degrees and swim to point D. So the back azimuths are 70 degrees from D to C; 160 degrees from C to B; and 180 degrees from B to A. If the points A, B, C, & D are readily recognizable features, it should not be too difficult as long as you don't have to compensate for currents.