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> From: "George Huxtable" 

> Dan maintained that he was just an ordinary sailor, not into the finer
> points that some of those problems inevitably raised, which was fair enough.
>
> But I thought, at the time that Renee offered to take it on, that it would
> be quite a handful, to make a consistent set of problems-and-answers out of
> the series, and I didn't envy her task.

Spot on.  Especially given the intro statement that some of the exercises
purposefully introduced errors (blunders) and some simply had author's
errors.

I never quite knew what level of precision they were working to, so what to
take into account.   For example wind-generated surface currents or leeway
given point of sail.

In the bigger picture, some thought-provoking material, but often (like all
texts where one finds errors or omissions) frustrating if your answer does
not match.

Sailing a mile in her shoes, the problem for me wouldn't be not enough
input; but too much input to make sense of it all.

Bill


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