The Story of Navigation by Jeremy Batch, and Lunch

The Story of Navigation by Jeremy Batch and laying up lunch

Venue:  The Royal Oak, Kirby Muxloe LE9 2HN.  Directions - www.royaloakkirbymuxloe.co.uk

Main speaker – Jeremy Batch

Programme

10.30 - 11.00 Berthing (tea, coffees and drinks available from the bar)

11.00 - 11.45 The Story of Navigation from 2000 BC to 2020 AD – Jeremy Batch

12.00 - 12.45 The Story of Navigation - Part 2

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.15 Section matters

14 15 - 15.45 Cruising reports from members

15.45 - 16.00 Tea and slip moorings.

Please find attached booking forms and menus for your lunch choices.

The cost will be £3.00 per person (£5.00 for guests or non-members)
Lunch - pre-order please from the attached menus (either main menu or bar snacks) to Judi King by Friday 22 November. Payment for drinks and lunch is the responsibility of each attendee on the day.

The Story of Navigation:  2000 BC to 2020 AD – a talk by Jeremy Batch

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated salmon do it – and all with a precision that we have only just begun to match. The contributions to navigation made by Galileo and John Harrison are well-known, and the work of others – such as Michael Faraday and Elmer Sperry – can at least be guessed at.  But what about Igor Sikorsky, Arthur C. Clarke and Albert Einstein?  If the back-staff was such an improvement over the cross-staff, why did the Dutch East India Company ban it from their ships?  How did Deptford Sailing Club (estab.1514) get put in charge of pilotage and buoyage, and why did their successors finally settle on red and green, which many of us can’t distinguish?  How did the nuclear submarine USS Skate find Ice Station Alpha in 1959, when the “station” had no idea where it was?  Which prehistoric navigational device played a vital part in the moon landings?  Why did the astronauts come back younger than if they’d stayed at home, and how does this affect your satnav?  And how did the Polynesians and the Vikings find their way around, centuries before GPS? Find about about this and more...