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Re: Electronic vs non-electronic
From: Pierre Boucher
Date: 1999 Oct 04, 13:14 EDT
From: Pierre Boucher
Date: 1999 Oct 04, 13:14 EDT
Are you shure you did not mean 18th/early 19th centuries??? Pierre >One thing you've got to remember (at least in my part of the world) is >that many charts are still base on surveysdone in the late 17th/early >18th centuries. Remarkably accurate given the timepieces and other nav >instruments in use then >John ************************************************************************** X XX X Pierre Boucher N XXX XX formation en navigation de plaisance XXXX XXX Ste-Therese (Quebec) Canada XXXXX XXX XXXXXX XXX la "VOILE"... le reste n'est que du vent... XXXXXXXXXXXXXX ''Sail, Sail !''... the rest is only wind XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX EMAIL: pboucher@XXX.XXX XXX "http://www.lavoile.com" **************************************************************************