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On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:32 AM,   wrote:
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>   "Our first Atlantic trip, from St. Thomas to Spain, was just before GPS came
>  in and Buckley was a superb navigator, using the traditional sextant and
>  star sightings to get us across the ocean,"

In one of his books he describes -- in detail -- his use of an HP-65
programmable calculator to help him do sight reduction.  He even wrote
some of his own navigation software.  He took his son along on one of
these big trips as a "rite of passage" into manhood.

All of this was very inspiring to me as a young teenager in the 70s
and helped me get more into celestial nav.  Buckley also made a VHS
tape describing celestial nav.

He will be missed.

Dan

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