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Re: Role of CN at sea, was RE: Averaging sights ...

From: Ken Gebhart (no email)
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 21:02:09 EDT

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    on 10/13/04 2:16 AM, Alexandre Eremenko at wrote:

    > I agree that the "justification" of Cel Nav as
    > a "backup for GPS" cannot be defended.
    > GPS is indeed more precise, more reliable and easier
    > to use.
    >
    My only rejoinder to this is that when one goes to sea, he should have a
    manual way of doing anything that is important. CN and a compass is the
    only manual way to navigate at sea (apart from watching the contrails).

    Ken Gebhart


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