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From: Rodney Myrvaagnes (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 16:01:46 EST
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Thanx
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:53:39 -0500, CarlZog wrote:
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FONT-FAM ILY: Arial } DIV.Se ction1 { page: Section1 } I have the small
plastic artificial horizon that Davis used to produce, and used it with
motor oil. Though the oil had to be kept in a different jug, I didn't
need much and the size of the Davis made it easy to transport. I've
only˙used it a few times;˙once taking a series of shots along a cove I
was trying to chart.
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My only other experience with artificial horizons was in a dead calm
fog bank off Nova Scotia. The sun broke through, but the horizon was
nowhere to be seen. I˙quickly "borrowed" a baking pan from the galley
and some motor oil from the engine room to get our only˙sun line in
three days . It worked quite well, though neither the cook or the
engineer˙seemed˙very impressed, as I recall!
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(By the way, this was on a sail training voyage in which we had started
the week attempting to stick to celestial for education purposes. It
should be noted that despite the visibility, our DR, GPS and radar
helped maintain safety margins.)
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Carl Herzog˙
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Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a
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