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Subject: Re: Mercator vs. Great Circle Charts
From: Young, Derrick (youngd@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 11:24:28 EDT
Rick,
I understand your comment about SATNAV - but I was on a cruise ship recently
and they still had the equipment and it was still in use. Like many
mariners - we seem to keep the old stuff "just in case." I still found
folks onboard that thought it was funny that the quartermaster was taking
dawn/noon and dusk shots with a sextant and then working out the position
(by hand!) to confirm what the position that the GPS and LORAN-C were
reporting.
It felt good (to me) to see their accuracy was a bit better than mine (lots
more practice!).
derrick
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