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He can also get a copy for less than $10 at www.abebooks.com.

HTH

Tony Cappiello wrote:

> Murry
>
> Bowditch's "The American Practical Navigator" is available online at the 
following website . You can download the entire document at once or a chapter 
at a time. This should get you started without spending any $. This is the 
reference or at least one of the references you should have. It contains a 
wealth of information. There are several other documents at this site which 
may be of interest to you as well.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/
>
>
> Tony Cappiello
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Navigation Mailing List
> [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Murray Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 17:30
> To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Subject: DIY plotting charts
>
>
>  the books i'm trying to learn from mention that it is
> possible to make your own plotting charts on graph or
> blank paper, but they don't give any more info...
>
>  it seems like i will need to create a map projection
> for the needed lattitude...i'm not sure how i go about
> scaling lattitude to longitude at different
> lattitudes...is there a formula that does this??
>
>  (i would rather not be dependent on buying and
> stowing a bunch of plotting charts)
>
>  thanks, m
>
>


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