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Re: HO 211 with Sadler method
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2016 Jul 27, 11:04 -0700
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2016 Jul 27, 11:04 -0700
Hey, John, thanks. It's always good to hear one of my children found a good home. The book came out in as a book club hardcover in 1975, then later in a trade paperback edition - When did you buy it?
I used the Ebbco thru two sailing seasons, then got a metal sextant and an early Seiko digital watch, which was clunky but had a steady rate.
Thanks again. You've made my day.
Hewitt
Greg,
Your message brought back some good memories for me. I learned cel-nav from my navigators when I flew in the Air Force. The first book I bought on navigation was "Common Sense Celestial Navigation". By then I had a TI sincetific calculator ( with the red display) and hated the 9.xxxxx log tables so I never really looked at the tables in the book - I used the formulas.
I even went out and bought one of those ugly, black plastic EBBCO sextants. Still have it and the book.
The book came out too late to have much impact I think. HO 249, trig calculators, computers and all overtook log trig tables. It takes minamialists like me ( and you I think ) to like the back to basics paper and pencil way.
John H.
