Two On A Big Ocean The Story of the First Circumnavigation
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Re: Electronic vs non-electronic

Subject: Re: Electronic vs non-electronic
From: Pierre Boucher (pboucher@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 13:14:51 EDT

Are you shure you did not mean 18th/early 19th centuries???

Pierre

>One thing you've got to remember (at least in my part of the world) is
>that many charts are still base on surveysdone in the late 17th/early
>18th centuries. Remarkably accurate given the timepieces and other nav
>instruments in use then
>John
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