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Re: Silicon Sea Leg 69: ANSWERS
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2001 Apr 10, 14:25 EDT
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2001 Apr 10, 14:25 EDT
Mike: You are correct. Poor structure on my part for the problem, I should have said "We head for Barbados on the new TC." On 10 Apr 2001, at 13:52, Michael Wescott wrote: > > 1. FIX= 9d 50.0'N 53d 00.2'W > > 3. DR= 13d 16.4'W 59d 32.3'W > > and working backwards, there was a course change to 298 d (TC) after > the fix. This makes sense, but it wasn't mentioned in the text of the > problem and the other course does bring us conveniently south of Barbados. > > -- > Mike Wescott > Wescott_Mike@XXX.XXX Dan Hogan dhhogan@XXX.XXX