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Peter wrote:

> Bill has found another David Burch/Starpath article of relevance, and
> here is the link to it:
> http://www.starpath.com/online/celestial/vic-maui-sights.pdf
>
> Do I remember correctly, Bill, was this the article that turned into
> quite a controversy in American sailing magazines, that raged for a
> while?
>
> The burning topic of that furore was metal sextants versus plastic
> ones, but this article also has relevance to slope analysis: "... but
> we can later do better by a careful slope analysis of the data."

I think we loosely remember the same article.  In my recollection a magazine
set a group of people on a rock with an assortment of sextants and turned
them loose.  Supposedly the position of the beach was a known, but Burch
questioned their position as well as other methodology that put the somewhat
strange conclusions the magazine reached (to a practitioner of cel nav at
least) in doubt.

The above was written before I read Burch's response to the magazine
article.

I love Australian wine, but if that does that to our memories, I will have
to give it up. 

Bill B.




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