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Re: Question about navigating......
From: Dave Weilacher
Date: 2004 Mar 3, 10:44 -0800
From: Dave Weilacher
Date: 2004 Mar 3, 10:44 -0800
Except for two special cases I think not. Those would be if you knew you formed a right angle from your boat to one tower then the other. ...or if you knew you were equi-distant from both of them. -----Original Message----- From: Rene SchmidtSent: Mar 3, 2004 10:18 AM To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: Question about navigating...... Good Morning, I am a new member to this list. Some sailing friends of mine have a little bet that I am hoping some super-navigator can help answer. We are sailing and see two lighthouses in the distance. The distance between the two are known (for example 2 kilometers). We have a compass and we can take a reading of the 2 lighthouses (for example 20 degrees off of magnetic north for one, and 50 degrees off of magnetic north for the other). This would be simple to plot to get a position on a map. The question is: is this a mathematically solveable problem? If so, what is the formula? Thanks in advance for your help! Regards, Rene Schmidt __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Dave Weilacher .US Coast Guard licensed captain . #889968 .ASA instructor evaluator and celestial . navigation instructor #990800 .IBM AS400 RPG contract programmer