Navigation in 1588 relied on approximation.
Latitude could be estimated. Longitude could not. Currents were half-known. Weather transformed charts into suggestions.
Sailing was an act of educated guesswork layered atop experience and prayer.
Every fleet carried the risk of simply failing to arrive where intended.
That uncertainty drives tension in Armada-era fiction far more effectively than perfect maps ever could.
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