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Re: Mercator vs. Great Circle Charts
From: Derrick Young
Date: 2001 Aug 29, 9:24 AM
From: Derrick Young
Date: 2001 Aug 29, 9:24 AM
Rick, I understand your comment about SATNAV - but I was on a cruise ship recently and they still had the equipment and it was still in use. Like many mariners - we seem to keep the old stuff "just in case." I still found folks onboard that thought it was funny that the quartermaster was taking dawn/noon and dusk shots with a sextant and then working out the position (by hand!) to confirm what the position that the GPS and LORAN-C were reporting. It felt good (to me) to see their accuracy was a bit better than mine (lots more practice!). derrick
