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Leg 58 results
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 1999 Sep 29, 03:41 EDT
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 1999 Sep 29, 03:41 EDT
Silicon Sea Leg 58 answers: 1. 2.9 kt and 031 deg made good during the night. Seems a rather small distance made good (47 mi). Hope I didn't make a mistake. 2. Mar 29 1800 ZT DR = 4940 S 6450 W. 3. The fathometer should be able to keep us inside the 200-fathom line. 4. 033 deg true and 1920 mi to Rio de Janerio. 5. Compass course, allowing for variation, deviation, and current (1 deg right correction) = 025 deg. 6. ETA = Apr 6 0400 Z. 7. Rio is 3 hours behind Greenwich time, thus local ETA = Apr 6 0100. Problems worked with plotting sheets and E-6B analog computer. It's unreasonable to use a plotting sheet for the run to Rio, but I want to see how close it comes. Used a mid-latitude of 36 S for that sheet.
