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Re: Practice CN on cruise ship
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2017 Oct 25, 17:49 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2017 Oct 25, 17:49 -0700
It was in a low cabinet on the port side of the bridge and the first officer had to remove four or five other boxes in front of it before he opened the right one.gl
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On 2017-10-21 15:43, Gary LaPook wrote: > Last August on the Aanui 5 I just went up on the bridge and borrowed the captain's sextant. You must have a trustworthy face. During the eclipse day someone wanted to take a look through my Astra. In an effort to say no with a humorous touch, I told him what the old time navigators used to say: "You wouldn't let another man handle your woman. Don't let him handle your sextant."
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