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Not too much to say about this trip George. It is being done in a Tartan 34C 
which is being refit this winter and spring with trials scheduled mid to late 
summer this year. Changes and modifications will be made next winter based on 
the trials and then the boat will be sailed to Maine early summer 07. Late 
summer my two friends and I will go up to Maine to start the trip and from 
there sail to Greenland. This trip is being done on a boat with both an 
engine and electronics. The last high latitude sail I took was on a smaller 
boat, only 22 feet instead of 34 feet and without any power, meaning no 
engine or electrical system. That trip went as far north as 55 degrees. This 
trip will go as far north as the ice permits.

We will have GPS and two sextants onboard. The navigation time will be from a 
quartz chronometer instead of one of my Ships Chronometers. This is only the 
second trip I am doing using a GPS and no need to wind the chronometer every 
day. My first offshore trip with a GPS was just last year when I went to 
Bermuda in November. By the way, the best we did with the sextant on that 
trip was a position by observation that was ? mile from what the GPS said was 
our location. I instructed Bill in the use of the sextant by having him take 
a series of sights while I recorded the time. He plotted them on graph paper 
and chose the best one for determining the position by computer. I had HO 211 
with me, as is my habit on deliveries. It fits very neatly into the case for 
my sextant.
Robert Gainer

>
> From: George Huxtable 
> Date: 2006/02/14 Tue PM 04:52:33 EST
> To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Subject: Robert Gainer's projected voyage.
>
> Robert Gainer certainly whetted my interest when he casually mentioned a projected voyage to Eastern
> Greenland next year; and no doubt  he interested others too.
>
> I hope he won't leave it at that, but will satisfy our curiosity about his plans.
>
> George.
> contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
> or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
> or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
>

   

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