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Subject: RE: [worldcruising] Re: Distances
From: Rick H Kennerly (nh2f@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 05:12:33 EDT
|o| his book(s). Since he is well up there in years and doesn't cruise
|o| anymore, I presumed his book would be significantly out of date. Wrong?
|o|
You're headed into a region where many if not most charts are still based on
19th century British Admiralty surveys. Some islands and reefs are up to 2
miles off when compared with GPS readings and most chart details are dozens
of yards off, particularly the lesser visited groups. Once you get into
the region, one of the hottest commodities are other cruisers hand-corrected
charts with GPS waypoints for lagoon entrances and turning points inside
coral channels and their hand drawn chartlets. Take a lot of tracing paper.
So while some details in Landfalls maybe dated, not a lot changes on many of
the islands out there.
Rick Kennerly, NH2F
Rick the Mouseherder
Xapic, Westsail 32
Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
www.mouseherder.com/xapic
www.westsail.org
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