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From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2012 Oct 22, 17:09 -0700
Attached is my plotting effort using a homemade plotting sheet constructed with the help of Peter Hakel's "T" Plotting tool. I have the cross track error at 4 NM to starboard with the 1812 fix at Lat 40* 57' N Lon 66* 23' W.
Greg Rudzinski
[NavList] TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSING
From: Kevin Coulombe
Date: 22 Oct 2012 15:51
BODY: stars
Date: 22OCT2012 LT
WATCH TIME: as per body
ZD: +4
WATCH ERROR: 5S FAST
SEXTANT
FPM DRUM SEXTANT / AP MOLLER COMPANY ISSUE / CURRENT BRIDGE EQUIPMENT
4X40 MONOCULAR
RESIDUAL ERRORS +5” AT 20 DEGREES
INDEX ERROR 0.8 OFF THE ARC
HEIGHT OF EYE 30 METERS
BAROMETER 1013
AIR TEMP 15C
DR
L 41 00 N
Lo 066 30W
BODY
MIRFAX
WT 181440
Hs 18-40.2
ALTAIR
WT 181210
Hs 58-06.5
ARCTURUS
WT 181623
Hs 15-57.3
MOON
XXXXX
XXXXX
Technical error: I should have shot this body late in civil twilight as by the time I shot the moon the horizon was too dark.
Course 076 T
Speed of Advance 21.2 kts
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