The sad thing is that I’m “young” and have nearly 11 years at sea now. We actually have a LORAN box on our bridge but the antenna rotted off and we can’t convince the company to get us a new one. The thinking is that we don’t need it with GPS. Now that they are talking about shutting down LORAN, I don’t think we’ll ever get our antenna.
Fortunately I do keep that sextant in good shape and practice with it every chance I get.
JCA