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Re: Traverse boards
From: Bill Murdoch
Date: 1998 Oct 30, 18:25 EST
From: Bill Murdoch
Date: 1998 Oct 30, 18:25 EST
When I first saw a traverse board in a museum, I thought it would be a handy thing to have in the cockpit in a thunderstorm when too much is going on to go below to write and it is too wet to do any navigation with pencil and paper in the cockpit. I have never tried it thought. I just write on the fiberglass with a wooden pencil and scrub it off afterwards. It adds a different slant to the words "deck log". I keep a list of course changes and log readings. Later, I can plot it. I also write on the boat when racing. I find it easier than trying to remember times at marks and headings on each tack. Bill Murdoch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= =-= navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=