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Re: Looking for references on "aiming off"
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2010 Sep 11, 12:13 -0400
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2010 Sep 11, 12:13 -0400
I don't have a copy of the book, but I recall it having to d with finding a spot on a tidal creek in the fog. They aimed off so as to know which wa to turn when they came to the creek. My recollection is they were doing this afoot.
Hewitt
Hewitt
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:36 AM, George Huxtable <george@hux.me.uk> wrote:
Referring to the aiming-off technique, Hewitt Schlereth wrote-
I used to know that tale well, but last read it many years ago. It would be
| Then there's Erskin Childer's novel The Riddle of the Sands, in which
aiming
| off plays a crucial part.
useful if Hewitt reminded us of the episode in which it played a crucial
part.
George.
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