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You need to use another plotting sheet or calculate using one of the
sailings. My fault, I'll try to keep Departure Points under 60 Nmi in the
future. I picked this the position off of Chart INT 400, forgetting about the
scale.
On 23 Apr 2001, at 0:26, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I was working on question 5 of Silicon Sea: Leg 70, I had a question. I was
> using a plotting sheet printed from Ed Falk's site (I have real sheets on
> order). Now doing exactly what he shows at
> http://www.best.com/~falconer/Navigation/leg57-2.html, I have a mid-latitude
> of 13 N, and from right to left 3 longitudes lines reading 61, 62, and 63 W
> respectively. In order to plot St Lucia (13d 50.1' N 64d 04.0' W) I had to
> draw a fourth longitude line.
>
> Now my question is: what do you do if there isn't enough space to draw the
> lines you need (said I needed 6 degrees of longitude or latitude)? Do you just
> draw lines in-between and divide the corresponding scale by 2 or more? What's
> the impact on accuracy? I can't even get precise 1' measurements on the
> regular scale...
>
> YA
Cheers
-Dan-

   

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