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Default Charts- care & feeding


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Capt.American wrote:
Sounds good for whiping your ass Tonto.


You couldn't whip a bowl of milk


My charts have lat and lon in hours, min and seconds,


Wow! Lines on paper!


Not just lines Tonto, a geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system
expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three
coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the
spin axis of the Earth. It defines two angles measured from the center
of the Earth:*the latitude measures the angle between any point and the
equator*the longitude measures the angle along the equator from an
arbitrary point on the

Earth soundings in fathoms,

Why do you need to know how deep the water in the middle of th eocean
is? Are you really at risk of running aground there? Gonna drop anchor?


Might wan't to catch a fish in the Mariana's trench, you can also cross
refference your position with known water depths. Also handy knowledge
in reef skewn areas.


..... loran lines, lease blocks, compass
rose, loran linear interpolator, variation factors, pollution reports,


Anywhere your boat is

ship wrecks, conversion tables, explosive dumping areas, submarine
operation areas


The whole ocean is a "submarine operating area."


Listen Chief, some areas are restricted submarine training areas, you
will find these areas around islands in the oceans like Guam, and
similar Naval bases. Unless you wan't to be on bottom of the ocean like
a Japanese whaling school for retards, I suggest you avoid these areas.



.... reefs, islands, atolls


Now there you have something... OTOH if it has a shoreline, it's not
the "middle of the ocean" any more, is it?


Yes it is.

Is Hawaii in the Pacific ocean? How's about Midway? An ocean is just a
large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
Unless you are on a bordering continent then you can be near mid ocean
as see a shore.

I suggest you study Captain Neals basic Nautical terms.
He defines "islands" and land surrounded by water.

You play the dumb injun with perfect realism.

Capt. American





-signed- Injun Ear (formerly known as Eagle Eye)


 
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