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Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 71
From: Sam Chan
Date: 2001 May 17, 01:49 EDT
From: Sam Chan
Date: 2001 May 17, 01:49 EDT
I set up my Starpilot for this problem and with the sight data entered, it gave a fix at 13-00.9N 61-29.1W. The worst you can say about Paul's fix was that it was off by 1 minute. Given the celestial fix at 0854, it appears we have an 8 kt drift, set at 099. Sam Chan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hirose" <paulhirose@XXX.XXX> To: <NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 71 > I don't think my Silicon Sea fix on 2001 May 30 at about 0850 Z is off > by a degree in latitude. Two other people got practically the same fix: > > Wescott 13 00.3 N 61 29.4 W > Chan 13 01.4 61 28.8 > Hirose 13 02 61 29 > > -- > > > paulhirose@XXX.XXX (Paul Hirose) >
