Subject: Huh? Diesel engines don't last 800 hours before major repairs??
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 07/20/2004 19:22 Pacific Standard Time
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grouch, because the word is misused and because the "common" usage of the
word
implies high end precision,

Are you saying "Bowditch" is misusing a term of navigation?
The only person who thinks it implies high end precision, is you. To imply high
end precision the term would have to be Dead-on Reckoning.

a whole generation of sailors believe it is
perfectly safe to wonder around among the rocks in fog, with just a compass
and
speed indicator onboard. In fact, the USPS teaches that very nav system as
indeed a precision nav system. Nevermind, that just 25 years ago boats stew
ped enough to be caught near the rock in fog often ended up on the rocks
before
the fog lifted.

you can call it Santa Claus, if you wish, but it ain't.

All your post do is confirm that you have done little if any navigation.

Shen