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Re: Slocum's lunars :was; long lost lunars
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Dec 12, 12:27 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Dec 12, 12:27 -0500
Thanks to the kind links provided, I'm reading Slocum now for the first time. I've been keeping an eye out for evidence of lunars. 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. On Dec 12, 2003, at 7:56 AM, George Huxtable wrote: > I doubt if Frank Reed and I are going to agree much about whether > Slocum > took just one lunar on his circumnavigation, or whether he made it a > common > practice. Perhaps it may have been something between the two.
