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Re: Horizontal Sextant angles plot.
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2010 Dec 04, 11:55 -0800

George Huxtable wrote:
> But around that same time, at a yachtsman's navigation evening-class in
> Britain, I was being taught the same technique, and it is detailed in
> Cotter's "Elements of Navigation" of 1953, and likely many other texts of
> earlier date.

In practice, how much did you use circles of position derived from
horizontal sextant angles? I imagine the observations and plotting would
be difficult on a small craft with cramped quarters and tiny crew.

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