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Re: Sumner's Line (Navigation question)
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Feb 17, 16:15 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Feb 17, 16:15 -0500
George wrote: "In the mailing I sent last night on this topic I made a careless mistake when I wrote, at the end, about working a time-sight..." Wondered about that, but you have so many ways to skin a cat, I glossed over it. In the major blunder category, I had been working off the east-west line for convenience, and failed to convert the LOP and bearing back to cardinal for several postings now. LOP/course should have been 68d ( not 22.X d) Bearing to Smalls (from DR latitude with longitude adjusted by time site): Sumner's Smalls location: 69d T Frank's Smalls location: 75d T Bearing to Smalls (from Sumner's "true" position): Sumner's Smalls location: 72d T Frank's Smalls location: 90d T Bill
