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hi Bill,

celestial stuff is really an indoor sport for me.  I get so much pleasure
trying to wrap my brain around the classic books on the subject.  I have
never used it seriously underway.  mostly I practice in the front yard, on a
good day the house only moves a couple miles.  I have an Astra IIIB and the
bubble horizon.  I think the bubble horizon is at fault for most of the
errors.  when I shoot sights on SF Bay or on the Pacific I can usually do
better.  also, the times I have tried a pan of oil artifical horizon, the
house moves a lot less.


I do a LOT of sailing, I taught sailing to kids 9-16 last summer, took 1st
in the Capri 14.2 series last summer, the F27 I crewed on last year got 1st
in its series.  we have seven boats on trailers in the yard: various
dinghies, sloops, Hobie 16, Trifoiler.  I had a Catalina 25 for 12 years
which I sailed all over SF Bay, delta, up and down the coast...  we're
getting a 41' catamaran (Ian Farrier design) built in New Zealand; when
finished we will sail it back to California.  obviously I am looking forward
to doing a lot of celestial!!  but for me sailing and navigation have never
really mixed!

Cliff
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these are the good old days
Cliff Sojourner          cls@employees.org

   

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