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Re: Relative plotting vs Geographical plotting
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2002 Jan 12, 6:45 PM
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2002 Jan 12, 6:45 PM
Brian Whatcott wrote: > It turns out that for the people who wrote the word 'ship' as navis, > and before them, as nafs there was indeed no necessary connotation > of sails as the motive force, Exactly my point. That's why I don't understand the zeal to restrict the scope of this discussion group to the navigation of sailing vessels. > 'quinquiremes from Nineveh'. Is it not quinqueremis (pl. quinqueremes), from quinque and remus, five ruders? > > What is the priority of a rowed vessel in open water encounters, I wonder? > :-) > Basically that of a sailing vessel, as per Rules 18 and 25. This actually underlines the point I made earlier about the silliness of Rule 12. Best regards Herbert Prinz (from 1368950/-4603950/4182550 ECEF)