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    Does "Lifeboat Navigation" exist today?
    From: Tom Sult
    Date: 2015 Jun 16, 08:43 -0500
    I'm a bit amused by emergency navigation of a life raft. If you have a sat phone it probably has a GPS. If you don't how does a position help. You are presumably not in a sailing dory but a modern inflatable life raft with water ballast. You are going with the current  

    If you have a VHF radio it is unlikely your position by sextant will add to the fact that you are in VHF range from 3 feet AGL. 

    But then what do I know. Help me. 

    Tom Sult, MD
    Author: JUST BE WELL
    justbewell.info

    On Jun 16, 2015, at 03:36, Gary LaPook <NoReply_LaPook@fer3.com> wrote:

    I'm sticking with what Mrs. Anderson taught me in 4th grade, long multiplication. I looked at the other ways, which I didn't even know existed, and they are interesting but not particularly compelling to switch horses at this late date. I haven't done long multiplication for a long time so the first few examples were slow but then the speed came back. BUT, on a boat sailing at 6 knots, you have lots and lots of time to do the multiplication. And, in an emergency, drifting at 1/4 knot in your life raft, you have all the time in the world. 

    gl


    From: Hanno Ix <NoReply_HannoIx@fer3.com>
    To: garylapook---.net
    Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:41 PM
    Subject: [NavList] Re: Hav-Doniol

    Hewitt,

    sorry, I do not understand - a table for / of what, please?

    And, well, you would not need "cheating" as you professed, Vedic can be done w/o a calculator easily. If I, the slowest multiplicator on the list, can you surely can multiply with Vedic easily, too. Ever tried it?

    H



    On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Hewitt Schlereth <NoReply_Schlereth@fer3.com> wrote:
    Hanno, don't these methods require you to make a table before you do the multiplying - ie, a preliminary chance to make blunders even ante getting to to the problem?

    I'm with Gary and Greg on this one. Though I'm very slow at long multiplication, I do get there. (Then of course there's my backup - baggies of batteries and two-bit calculators.)

    Hewitt


       
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