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Ship's Chronometer
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2009 Mar 10, 21:35 EDT
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From: Jeremy C
Date: 2009 Mar 10, 21:35 EDT
Scott wrote-.
Who is the manf of your ships chronometer?
Do you use it for some of your sights?
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Who is the manf of your ships chronometer?
Do you use it for some of your sights?
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The chronometer on my current ship is a Tamaya. I don't remember a
model number. Sadly it is adjusted with each of our time changes so it's
not treated as a chronometer. It is a quartz movement. I haven't
seen a wind-up movement since my 1st training ship in the mid to late
1990's which was built in 1968.
I have never used a chronometer/stopwatch for any of my sights in my 10
years of celestial navigation. I have always set my quartz watch to the
WWV or other radio time tick to within 1 second and just shoot with that.
I tend to check my watch weekly, and find I need to adjust it about every month
or so, depending on the model watch I have that trip.
Jeremy
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