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From: Greg R. (no email)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 23:41:29 EDT
Frank Reed wrote:
> For more on Sue Howell and the events leading to her tragic death, you may
> want to read "Tall Ships Down" by Dan Parrott.
You must be reading my mind - I just ordered it from Amazon earlier this morning. :-)
> In addition to being a skilled navigation teacher, she also made good cookies
> (I knew her mostly when I was 15 to 17).
Wish I could have taken some courses from her while she was alive (my celnav interest was pretty much dormant during the '80s) - her tongue-in-cheek tone in some of the problems in her book was definitely appreciated. :-)
How did you know her - older friend or relative have some connection with Mystic?
> Incidentally, Susan Howell also wrote an extensive series of navigation
> "Day's Work" problems which were very fun, and funny!, and could easily be
> published as another book. Ken, if you're listening, I've been trying to convince
> Don Treworgy that you two should make this happen.
Were those published anywhere? Wonder if we could find them online somewhere.
> Probably the best example of a woman navigator historically is Janet Taylor.
Thanks for the additional reference, I'll scope it out when I get a chance.
> Hey, maybe it's actually "women's work". <g>
I think I'll try that approach and see exactly how far it gets me - glad I've got a good medical and dental plan...... ;-)
-- GregR ----- Original Message ---- From: Frank Reed <> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2006 4:45:40 PM Subject: Re: Women Navigators For more on Sue Howell and the events leading to her tragic death, you may want to read "Tall Ships Down" by Dan Parrott. It's an excellent book generally. Just a reminder, some events of the Celestial Weekend in Mystic are funded by the Susan P. Howell Memorial Fund. In addition to being a skilled navigation teacher, she also made good cookies (I knew her mostly when I was 15 to 17). Incidentally, Susan Howell also wrote an extensive series of navigation "Day's Work" problems which were very fun, and funny!, and could easily be published as another book. Ken, if you're listening, I've been trying to convince Don Treworgy that you two should make this happen. Probably the best example of a woman navigator historically is Janet Taylor. She ran a successful navigation school in London in the mid-19th century. She invented a combined calculator/sextant --seems ungainly and impractical but it's clever. She was the author of a very successful navigation manual which you can find, complete, on google books. Celestial navigation was apparently popular among captains' wives, when they sailed with their husbands, in the 19th century. There are examples in logbooks at Mystic Seaport. Hey, maybe it's actually "women's work". <g> -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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