If you run out of plotting sheets in mid-ocean and are struggling to work out your lat/long scales, don’t be tempted to try and plot on the ‘big’ chart. Your pencil blobs might be the same size as Wales. Find a coastal chart whose latitude is more or less the same as yours, then lift off its lat and long with your dividers onto a sheet of A4. It works like a charm.

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