Someone asked for an easy way to figure out how fast Skip was traveling.
Well I found a nice little on-line Haversine (the function to compute
the Great Circle distance between two points) calculator.

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

Just input the coordinates from two of Skips messages that are one hour
apart and out pops the distance in km. You can do a bit of conversion
from there.

From Skips' 1257 abd 1357 points he only traveled 10Kms, about 6nm.

Cheers
Marty