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Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 82
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Dec 02, 10:06 PM
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Dec 02, 10:06 PM
> >What do I use for charts and plotting - where do I get them? > > Since we are in open ocean, you don't need any charts. For plotting, you > will need plotting sheets. These are essentially charts with nothing on > them > but a compass rose and some lines of latitude and a scale for adding lines > of longitude. These are available from chandleries, or you can make your > own. I think that there are some available on the web, but I am not sure > from where. See Ed Falk's sample leg work at http://www.best.com/~falconer/Navigation/ which also has printable plotting sheets. I used them w/o problems, and then bought real (bigger ones) from Celestaire, www.celestaire.com. YA