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Re: Slocum's lunars
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2003 Dec 12, 12:43 -0500
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2003 Dec 12, 12:43 -0500
Hello Fred, I can't follow the logic of your argument. Why does this statement imply that Slocum made more than one lunar observation? Herbert Prinz Fred Hebard wrote: > Here's one > statement implying he made more than that one in the South Pacific. > After leaving Gibralter in Chapter 5, he says, "On September 10 the > Spray passed the island of St. Antonio, the northwesternmost of the > Cape Verdes, close aboard. The landfall was wonderfully true, > considering that no observations for longitude had been made." This > implies he may have made more than that one in the South Pacific, but > also indicates he kept a close DR.
