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To: ASOC
I’m sure that same bridge crew winds the chronometer in the drawer of the chart table every day at exactly the same time and then notes any error, the successive daily rate, with average daily rate.

Well yes and no, at least in the Navy. The chronometers are still compared every day and the rates noted but the old wind-up chronometers have long since given way to battery-powered quartz chronometers. I however, like any good QM, still have my chronometer key (7 1/2 half turns).

72 posted on 05/24/2010 11:43:18 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: GATOR NAVY
If it don't wind
you must combine...

Or
Real clocks tick. Trying to explain celestial navigation to the math impaired can be....difficult. Bowditch not withstanding.

74 posted on 05/25/2010 7:40:54 AM PDT by ASOC (Things are not always as they appear, ask the dog chasing the car)
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