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Re: Status of Celestial Nav in 2015
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Mar 7, 15:37 -0800
From: Sean C <NoReply_SeanC@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 10:56 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Status of Celestial Nav in 2015
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Mar 7, 15:37 -0800
You might be interested in my article in Ocean Navigator that touches on the level of celnav as practiced commercially in 2009.
gl
From: Sean C <NoReply_SeanC@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 10:56 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Status of Celestial Nav in 2015
I was hoping to be able to tell them that "even the Navy, with all its on-board computers, still uses celestial." But alas, that seems not to be so.I will instead tell them that they may use a sextant for the same reason that I do...primarily because it delights us-Bob Goethe
I don't know about the Canadian Navy, but I hear from a friend that the U.S. Navy still requires it.
Regards,
Sean C.
