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    From: Steven Wepster
    Date: 2001 Jun 12, 5:12 AM

    > ******************************************
    > Navigation-L Survey
    >
    > a) Dead Reckoning
    >         What is the method used most?
         Mercator Sailing-: X
    
    > b) Sight Reduction
    >         Which is your primary Sight reduction method?
         Calculator(Name?)--------------: current method; I'm getting
                                          lazy. Casio fx4500PA
         Short Navigation Tables,
             H.O. 211 etc.(Name?)-------: have used HO 249
         Standard Navigation Tables,
             229, 214 etc.(Name?)-------: formerly used Lieuwen's
                                          ABC-tables; great fun
         Other(Name?)-------------------: I'm experimenting with
                                          lunar distances (in the context
                                          of a PhD study).
    
    > c) Plotting
    >    How do you do your plotting?
          Home Made(Describe)-------: mid-latitude chart on ruled paper
                                      with the lines running N-S
    
    > d) Navigation Manuals
    >    Name your main reference manual:
             Bowditch (pre-1995)----------------: X
    
    >     Name a manual/book that helped you the most:
             Bowditch (pre-1995)----------------: X
    
    > e) Do you use the Nautical Almanac?
             Commercial-----------: X
    >         Computer-------------: sometimes Steve Moshier's AA program
    >
    >
    >
    Steven Wepster
    wepster@math.uu.nl
    

       
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