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Re: Principles and Being Practical
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2003 Sep 4, 18:09 -0700
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2003 Sep 4, 18:09 -0700
I sent this once today but don't see it on list so will try again. Mr. Fogg,a well stated position in my opinion for what it's worth.I was wondering if it was only I who had similar feelings on this matter.I was going to post some of my recent experiances during a transit from the Pacific to the Atlantic but when I signed back on list and read the posts since I was gone decided not to.The topics being discussed at lenght,at least to me,a proffessional and practical sailor were irrelivant.A good deal of what is discussed here are the fine points of a proceedure or maybe even nit-picking.There are dominate personnalities on this list just as on other lists.Getting a constant positional accuracy of less than 0.1 nm may be sought and discussed for land navigation but in reality not an overrideing concern at sea for the most part.The topic of gravitational hills,while interesting,is irrelivant to the navigation of vessels at sea. I've had people contact me off list from time to time,and continue to welcome them,with questions reguarding practical,real life navigation proceedures and practices.More than one stated they were intimadated by some of the answers or replies to some of the other questions they read on the list. I am on 2 other mailing lists that concern navigation or the sea.Everyday while at the office I will look at all.I find myself spending more time on another list as it is more practical and concerns topics discussed closer to my profession. I will continue to monitor the topics on this list.Delete them when irrelivant to my needs.Read them when I believe I can glean a nugget of information from them.I will contribute to a topic when able.