Originally Posted by
MattTheHat
I’m amazed this thread has survived this long.
...and now I'm going to have to bump it.
I just read an NYT obit for a guy who died at 104, but only after achieving claim-to-fame of sailing around the entire global...without GPS, compass, sextant, wristwatch, or even an abacus.
Marvin Creamer, a Mariner Who Sailed Like the Ancients, Dies at 104
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He was guided by the wind, waves, the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night." Also could tell position/direction based on temperature, birds, bugs, even the squeaky sound of his hatch.