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Silicon Sea leg 21
From: Jim Guthrie
Date: 1997 Feb 21, 15:01 EST
From: Jim Guthrie
Date: 1997 Feb 21, 15:01 EST
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Answers to Silicon Sea Leg 21:
#1 EP (10-08-38 GMT) to Masabb Dunyat is 230.1 NM
TC 106.0 deg Estimated time 24 hours and 13 minutes
#2 Adding current vector, speed goes from 9.5 to 9.85 kts and
direction goes from TC of 106 to direction with added vector
is 107.1 deg
Correcting for the current vector, the needed TC is 104.8 which is
(corrected to compass course) 100.8 deg.
Speed (while correcting for current) is 9.8 kts.
#3 ZT of listed Civ Twi (ending of) is 19:37
Nautical Twilight is 20:11. Thus there will be time
for sights.
#4 Sight # 1 @XXX.XXX0' E
#5 Fix @XXX.XXX1' E
#6 EP to Fix 7 hr 31 min 22 sec
Speed made good 9.62 kts
Compass course 104.9 deg
#7 TC made good 108.9 Distance 72.4 NM
#8 Move the course a little north as the entrance to port Said is not
from the East.
From Jim Guthrie N9KK Richmond IN
