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From: shane (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 13:28:21 EDT
.....sounds good.....now...what's a chip? :)
on 9/29/03 10:14 AM, Bob Young at wrote:
> Here is my method.
> Take 100 feet of light line, and coil or flake it on the after-deck. Tie a
> "chip" to one end, and make the bitter end fast aboard. Simultaneously kick
> the chip over the stern and start a stop-watch. When the line comes taught,
> stop the watch.
> Now, a nautical mile, for this purpose, is close enough to 6000 feet. So at
> one knot it should take one minute to run out 100 feet of line. If it takes
> 30 seconds, you are doing 2 knots; 15 seconds would be 4 knots; 10 seconds, 6
> knots - etc. Just divide 60 by the number of seconds elapsed.
> This is much easier than trying to guesstimate when a dropped chip passes the
> bow and the stern, and the longer distance traveled makes the result more
> accurate. Plus, the chip is recyclable, as you get to haul it back aboard.
>
> Bob
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