Description of Navigating by Eye

Absolutely not trying to teach anyone to navigate without electronics, that’d be a violation of the most basic principles of safe navigation.

The goal is to have the watch officer add “visual” to their toolbox.

There’s going to be circumstances where visual alone is not enough.

This is Hutchins which is posted in post #38

…simply having a good sense of the correspondences between what one sees and what is depicted on some representation of the local space is not enough. Now more precision is required. To answer that question the navigator needs to have a more exact determination of where he is.