We’ve cast off lines and put Honolulu to our rudder. Soon we’ll leave Hawaii in our wake as we sail on towards Japan.
Instead of a quiet night watch we braced all three masts sharp to sharp then doused and furled almost all the square sails.
Meridian passage fix within a few NM of the ships GPS. (That’s nautical miles, not nanometers)
Hmm. I see where one gets 78°.
(0 of outer scale aligns with 78 on inner scale.)
How do you all get 13' from this reading?
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@SaguaroLynx the vernier scale shows that the 12 and 14 lines almost align so I estimated between them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernier_scale
@SaguaroLynx @th Slide-Rule interpolation time :-)