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From: Frank Reed (no email)
Date: Mon Jun 06 2005 - 22:56:06 EDT
Henry H wrote:
"Regardless of the precision spoken of so often on this List, an intended
landfall, based on celestial navigation alone, within the masthead
visibility distance is a successful landfall."
It hasn't come up recently but there is one other important reason for
maintaining a relatively accurate position even a long way from land -- it's for
the SOS.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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