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Can't wait for Master and Commander, although I doubt that Maturin is
going to come into the cabin and have Aubrey say he just completed a
particularly satisfying series of lunars!


On Nov 14, 2003, at 2:46 PM, Smith_Peter@EMC.COM wrote:

> George Huxtable noted several members' problems with Leg 87 and
> begged clarification from "the backup team".
>
> By whatever name, we have been acting as proofreaders for Dan
> as he puts together the legs of the cruise. Typically, Dan sends
> us the draft of each leg, and depending on how busy we each are,
> one or two of us chime in with our corrections and suggestions
> over then next couple of days. Each leg usually goes through two
> or three iterations before it goes out to the list at large. Most
> of the time there is consensus. Other times, the reviewer(s) may
> not be completely at ease with the problems or the answers, but
> in the end it's Dan's call.
>
> In the case of Leg 87, I found no record of working the problems,
> so I must have been busy around the time the leg came out. Over
> lunch today I pulled the problems and answers from the list archive
> and I agree: the answer given for #2 doesn't work at all. The LHA
> appears to be a typo, since the value is way off, and the format
> (decimal degrees) isn't the way Dan usually works. Even fiddling
> with the date (which doesn't advance from the DR in problem #1
> although the time has crossed midnight) doesn't help. The Ho is
> also several degrees off from all the answers I got working the
> sight for various dates.
>
> My mail archive doesn't go back far enough to see who, if any,
> of use reviewed this leg with Dan. In any event, my apologies
> to the group that we caused confusion and frustration.
>
> ==========
>
> On another (nautical) topic, has anyone seen the new movie
> "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" yet? The
> reviews I've read were full of praise, both from devotees of
> O'Brien's books and others.
>
>  -- Peter
>

   

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