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Re: Age of Sail Navigation Weekend and a Lunars Day
From: Robert Pearson
Date: 2019 Sep 16, 22:06 -0700
From: Robert Pearson
Date: 2019 Sep 16, 22:06 -0700
Do you have a year for when these calculations were done? Seems like
they were still using Lunars to find their longitude.
Charles, Frank can reply in more detail perhaps but 3rd line from bottom of the log book page reads:
Monday October 2, 1809 Long by O&C ------------- 52°-16' E
Robert Pearson