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Doug

> When engaged in commerce shipping time is money and
> money is time.

I also imagine it takes more than pocket change in fuel for those few extra
miles as well. Must make a cigarette boat look like a hybrid economy car ;-)
Do you have a ball-park figure for gallons per mile for an average loaded
freighter?

> "The Merchant Marine Officer's Handbook" 4th or 5th edition devotes space to
> it in the chapters dealing with shiphandling and pilotting. I haven't seen a
> 6th edition yet.
>
> Other than that one book perhaps in other marine teaching institution's
> sylabus as that is where I was 1st exposed to it.

I first noticed it in the Annapolis Book of Seamanship, and then aware of
it, noticed it in a a couple of other texts.  Memory fails, but I would
guess Dutton's, Chapman, and Bowditch would be rounded up as the usual
suspects for a line up.


Bill

   

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