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Re: Attempting to decipher a "time sight"
From: Ed Popko
Date: 2016 May 31, 14:16 -0700
From: Ed Popko
Date: 2016 May 31, 14:16 -0700
Don,
Thanks for the inputs. Most of the 19th c nav scribbles I see are not in a log book but are on scraps of paper. The resulting position might be recorded in the log but the calculations are not.
Your comments are interesting for another reason - how conservative navigators/ship captains were. Once you have something that works, you don't give the practice up easly.
Ed Popko
