[Kenny Bunk]

It is called "Dead Reckoning" for a very good reason. Historically speaking, all of those who practiced this technique are now still dead. If you can take a sight occasionally, it is a pretty fair technique. If not, a stray 1-knot current can ruin your whole night at the yacht club.

The hot-dog squadron commander should have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, and then been severely reprimanded, Running at high speed off that coast in a fog with an onshore wind in the dark on a stormy night. It is well to remember that this is the same Navy that brought us Pearl Harbor a few years later.

[pingman]

Bad Naval career move ping!