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Distances
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2005 Feb 9, 12:25 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2005 Feb 9, 12:25 -0700
Ellen Macarther's recent singlehanded nonstop sail around the world in
71 days 14 hours 18 minutes 33 seconds, covering 27,354 nautical miles
at an average speed of 15.9 knots is simply amazing! (Check out
http://www.teamellen.com/ for more details...)
While studying her path I looked for the latitude and longitude of the
Ushant starting line using Google. I did not find the location, but I
did find this:
http://www.desmith.net/MJdS/dp.pdf
"Distance and Path" - a 13 MB Acrobat PDF file of Michael J de Smith's
PhD thesis concerning measuring distances. It has some interesting
things about sextants and nautical navigation history in it.
Dan
