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Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 75
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Jun 29, 11:22 EDT
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Jun 29, 11:22 EDT
> > assume that rounding to the nearest minute may make hand > calculations easier > > w/o a big loss of accuracy as far as en route sailing goes > for a sailboat like > > Silicon Sea. > > Yep. I go into this mode about 3 days after the start of a > trip. By 3-4 days > later I am at Sun sights only. A few days before ETA I start > a few star > sights. Sounds good. I miss long sails. Buoys racing is tons of fun, but they won't let me come aboard with a sextant :) YA