[Alberg30] NOAA - Free Charts and Readers

[George Dinwiddie]

It's primarily celestial, and the newsletter gets into some stuff that's 
way over my head.  I enjoy reading it, though, and learning what I can.

This is the foundation that did the studies on Peary's (and Henson's) 
North Pole photographs to determine that he did likely reach the North Pole.

  - George

Tom Sutherland wrote:
> George, Is this primarily about celestial or is there a lot about
> regular chart work?
> 
> quote from site: ..."Join this unique group of individuals
>             and help preserve the ancient art of celestial navigation
> for future generations."
> 
> Tom S
> A-30 # 412 
> 
> George Dinwiddie wrote:
> 
>>Well, I really prefer paper charts on board, anyway.  And if you join
>>the Navigation Foundation
>>(http://pw2.netcom.com/~navigate/celestial/nav.html), you can get a
>>discount on them--basically paying wholesale cost.

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   Hope your road is a long one.                        George Dinwiddie
   May there be many summer mornings when,       gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
   with what pleasure, what joy,                 http://www.Alberg30.org
   you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;
                                            from 'Ithaka' by C.P. Cavafy
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