Quote: And then repeat in a howling gale under a flickering red light, and trying desperately hard (while holding down the vomit) to not substitute 'plotting a course' for 'colouring in'......
LOL.
The key skill with conventional Nav is never to say in advance where you're going. That way you can make a near perfect landfall every time.
Quite seriously I recall one day aiming for Braye we ended up so far to the East with and East going tide that we just changed our minds and went to Cherbourg! Which would have been ok if we hadn't been racing to Braye.