This can be done by calculating the dead reckoning from the previous sight, or, what is even simpler, laying the distance off on the Plotting chart.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
I never permitted myself to be careless in regard to this, for I never let myself forget the importance of such data in Plotting an accurate course.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
They're probably Plotting how to strike us now.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton