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Re: celestial racing class
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2011 Sep 19, 08:37 -0700
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2011 Sep 19, 08:37 -0700
Frank: This year the Transpacific Yacht Club instituted an award for boats sailing their biennial race from San Pedro to Honolulu using only celestial navigation. They had one boat who used celestial and it was awarded their new Rudiger trophy for their work. The trophy was for navigators who chose to demonstrate their skills with traditional nav methods. It was different from the one in Bermuda. They were not solely using celestial. The trophy is named for well known Transpac navigator Mark Rudiger who died a couple of years ago. It consists of a traditional sextant. As to the observation that weather is important, George Griffith once told me that there was one pre-electronic navigation TransPac where they never saw the sun for the entire 2200 mile trip. So it was all dead reckoning! Two weeks of it! Jim Wilson ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210
