Navigating on the Open Ocean

The ability to detect and measure swells in their direction of origin is not useful just in steering on the open ocean. One more orientation technique that is even less reliable than the others, but it is sometimes still used as a back up. Soiites basically operate on the presence of known wind patterns to give you indications about about directionality. Some of the navigators here would look at wake behind boat. This was another moment where the technique was revealed, and i thought this method was ingenious.