A new exhibit is being unveiled at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum. “Across the Seas: a History of Navigation” is an interesting title for the exhibit that will showcase the history of navigation on the high seas. Today, most boaters could not imagine cruising on the Pacific Ocean without the use of GPS chart plotters, autopilot, radar, and cell phone.
This interactive, self-guided tour will take you back in time to when sailors relied on the stars, the sun, wind and the currents to find their destinations. Kind of reminds me how I first learned how to navigate except I had NOAA charts to reference and plot a course with “DRs.”
“Our goal is to guide our guests through this interactive exhibit with features that convey the importance of navigation, even in our everyday lives,” says David Muller, executive director of the museum. “We literally use these same concepts daily to move through the world that have been used for centuries, but today’s common navigation tools have a history of being developed through the evolution of navigation, which is explained and explored through this exhibit.”
