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George Huxtable noted several members' problems with Leg 87 and
begged clarification from "the backup team".

By whatever name, we have been acting as proofreaders for Dan
as he puts together the legs of the cruise. Typically, Dan sends
us the draft of each leg, and depending on how busy we each are,
one or two of us chime in with our corrections and suggestions
over then next couple of days. Each leg usually goes through two
or three iterations before it goes out to the list at large. Most
of the time there is consensus. Other times, the reviewer(s) may
not be completely at ease with the problems or the answers, but
in the end it's Dan's call.

In the case of Leg 87, I found no record of working the problems,
so I must have been busy around the time the leg came out. Over
lunch today I pulled the problems and answers from the list archive
and I agree: the answer given for #2 doesn't work at all. The LHA
appears to be a typo, since the value is way off, and the format
(decimal degrees) isn't the way Dan usually works. Even fiddling
with the date (which doesn't advance from the DR in problem #1
although the time has crossed midnight) doesn't help. The Ho is
also several degrees off from all the answers I got working the
sight for various dates.

My mail archive doesn't go back far enough to see who, if any,
of use reviewed this leg with Dan. In any event, my apologies
to the group that we caused confusion and frustration.

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On another (nautical) topic, has anyone seen the new movie
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" yet? The
reviews I've read were full of praise, both from devotees of
O'Brien's books and others.

 -- Peter

   

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