Exactly....
You say it'd show mental slowness to not work out where you were.... but if you're not used to using light characteristics to confirm a light source, haven't allowed for variation in 20 years (do I add or subtract that westerly variation?), and can't remember when the compass was last swung (if you even know what that means), then it might be harder than you or I would perhaps expect to be anywhere approaching accurate....
I remember setting out from Plymouth to the Channel Islands with nothing but a chart a pencil and a compass, and getting half way across and not being able to see the bow....
We, as usual, made it quite safely into St Peter Port...
I am sure that nowadays, without my GPS crutch, i'd be a darned site more nervous than I was in those days....
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