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Subject: Re: Relative plotting vs Geographical plotting
From: Herbert Prinz (hprinz@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 20:44:56 EST
Brian Whatcott wrote:
> It turns out that for the people who wrote the word 'ship' as navis,
> and before them, as nafs there was indeed no necessary connotation
> of sails as the motive force,
Exactly my point. That's why I don't understand the zeal to restrict the scope of
this discussion group to the navigation of sailing vessels.
> 'quinquiremes from Nineveh'.
Is it not quinqueremis (pl. quinqueremes), from quinque and remus, five ruders?
>
> What is the priority of a rowed vessel in open water encounters, I wonder?
> :-)
>
Basically that of a sailing vessel, as per Rules 18 and 25. This actually
underlines the point I made earlier about the silliness of Rule 12.
Best regards
Herbert Prinz (from 1368950/-4603950/4182550 ECEF)
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