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Re: Recreating Bligh's voyage to Timor
From: Andrew Corl
Date: 2010 May 28, 05:50 -0700
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 6:03:51 AM
Subject: [NavList] Recreating Bligh's voyage to Timor
From: Andrew Corl
Date: 2010 May 28, 05:50 -0700
Okay I am now laughing, if they are going to use the "ancient device" to mark the ship's angle against the horizon, they may have a problem and I give this recreation a low probability of success. Just a thought.
Andrew
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 6:03:51 AM
Subject: [NavList] Recreating Bligh's voyage to Timor
George, you mentioned Bligh's voyage after the mutiny to Timor. I don't think this has come up yet on NavList. There is a group trying to recreate that voyage right now. Here's a blog article about it:
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/may/27/mutinys-aftermath-comes-to-life/
...which includes this line:
"They’re using an ancient device called a sextant to mark the ship’s angle against the horizon"
-FER
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