"Joe" wrote in message
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Ok Dufas why did you not say "distance made north" you said UTM.

Look dickwad... Universal Transverse Mercator is a metric coordinate system
and Northing as well as Easting is utilized for postioning to whatever
decimal accuracy is required. What about this don't you comprehend??? You
can't have distance made north unless you have an original coordinate to
base it from... it could be distance made south! It's a position... and you
had to pass a navigation course??? Good Grief! You said you were in the US
forces... who do you think invented the UTM System Joe???


And I could fill my marina with icecubes and it would exert pressure on
my hull, ice cubes aint pack ice...sorry.

If the ice cubes were 40 feet across and 5 feet thick it would most
certainly exert pressure! You don't even know what pack ice is do you? You
can have both mechanically formed and naturally formed pack ice.


The information on the size of bergs and proper names comes from my
studies in the American Pratical Navigator, as does the description of
Growlers and why they are called growlers. Guess you know more about
bergs than Bowditch huh?

Oh good grief Joe.... I've been on ice bergs, pan ice, pack ice, bergy bits
and even grappled to candle ice. I thing I know what a growler, bergy bit or
iceberg is.


And your wrong I have seen rotten ice and icebergs. I told you I have
been to Point Barrow Alaska.

Alaska.... the Beaufort Sea.... I've sailed in it. I've flown it and I
worked North East of there on Banks and Victoria Islands. I've worked on
Melville and Devon Islands as well.

CM