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HI Frank great stuff speaking of early Mixter I have a 15th printing circa 
Oct, 1943 and my question is regarding the dip table on the inside cover, 
part of Table A . If you have reference to it I noticed with much confusion 
that most of the correction is positive. I tried to find the explanation but 
I seem to be missing something. Your enlightment would be greatly appreciated 
thanks much. 
> Jeremy, you wrote:
> "Funny thing about that, it was my textbook for 3 semesters of CelNav in
> college."
>
> LOL. Well, one CAN use an encyclopedia as a textbook. Of course, if you have
> good instructors, nothing else matters.
>
> ""Have" or "use" as they are not one in the same. At the moment, ll I have
> is a WW2 aircraft sextant. I am planning on getting a sextant when I get
> home to practice some lunars."
>
> Before you buy, you should ask on the list here. There's a lot of experience
> in the group with respect to sextant purchases.
>
> And you wrote:
> "As far as using sextants, I tend to use what is on the ship. I will take
> some pictures of our various navigation tools and post a link to a photo
> gallery for those who are interested."
>
> Excellent. I would love to see that. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who
> would like to see the vessel you're on.
>
> You wrote:
> "In a strange twist of fate, I have read very few navigational texts, and
> less history. I have read most of Bowditch, some Dutton's, and then the
> Tables I use (HO 214, HO 229, HO 249, Bruce Starke's Lunar Tables).
> Everything else I know is from instruction by navigators. This is why I
> think that I am somewhat lost when people reference some other tables or use
> terms that I am not familiar with."
>
> Then I have two book recommendations for you and one general suggestion.
> First, get a copy of Mixter's "Primer of Navigation" --one of the original
> editions from the 1940s. It's really well-written and every navigation
> enthusiast I know who has a copy just loves it. They turn up on ebay fairly
> often. Second, read Lecky's "Wrinkles in Practical Navigation" which was
> written in the late 19th century. It's wonderful. Much of the advice in it
> is valid today, and it will fill in a lot of that historical terminology as
> well as providing an excellent summary of the state of navigation c.1880.
> And best of all, it's available for free online via Google Books. You can
> download dozens and dozens of fascinating old navigation books from Google
> these days. Care to read a Bowditch from 1826?? That used to be a difficult
> proposition: either a trip to a research library and many hours sitting in
> an uncomfortable chair, or a couple of hundred dollars for a "reading copy"
> (in other words, a badly damaged copy) at a used book store. But within the
> past five years, it's all changed. Here is Lecky's Wrinkles:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=BzIAAAAAQAAJ
> And here is the 1826 edition of Bowditch:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=KcVBAAAAIAAJ
> You could get lost in Google Books so remember to come up for air. Depending
> on your geographic location, you can download these books in their entirety
> as pdf files. They are typically on the order of 50 megabytes, so if you
> don't have high-speed access, it's probably worth making a list of the ones
> you want and hitting an Internet cafe just for the downloads. Great stuff!
>
> Of the dreaded, dunking Dyer Dhows at Mystic Seaport, you wrote:
> "No I never capsized, but they are the slowest, least responsive, boat I've
> ever sailed."
>
> LOL. I'll tell the little boats you said 'hi'. :-)
>
> I wrote previously:
> Of course, now I can estimate your age. Somewhere between 30 and 35? I'll
> guess 32. Am I close?? :-) That makes you a bona-fide 'kid' by NavList's
> statistics.
>
> "I'm 32, so you are quite right. I just wonder how many sights I've taken,
> it must number in the hundreds."
>
> Ha! I have to give myself a cookie for a good guess. Incidentally, so
> there's no possibility of mis-understanding, the fact that you are younger
> than most of us (I'm younger than "most of us" here, and I'm a dozen years
> older than you) is a *good* thing from where I stand. And I would bet that
> you have taken more sights at sea in the past ten years than anyone else on
> NavList. There are some members who undoubtedly took more sights thirty or
> forty years ago, but I'm sure you have the top position for recent sights.
> I've very much enjoyed your posts, too.
>
> -FER
>
>
> >

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