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Re: Fw: Nautical Day
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2004 Feb 8, 15:41 -0500
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2004 Feb 8, 15:41 -0500
yourname here - Henry Halboth wrote: > I have otherwise searched American navigational references available to > me back the year 1795, find no reference whatsoever to the Nautical Day - > makes me wonder if perhaps this may have been a European custom. Try "sea-day" instead, and you will succeed. E.g. Bowditch 1821, p. 110 in his worked examples for the declination of the sun, and many, many other places. Herbert Prinz
