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Coordinated universal time and the mystery of the vanishing 13 seconds Issue 19 : Jul/Aug 2001 The biggest disappointment of my early life, after the Santa Claus thing, was the discovery that “Time Service” in Houston, Texas, in the 1940s was typically in error by 10 or 15 seconds. When you dialed Capitol 7171, you...
What your charts say about you and your path through life Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 HAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO YOU what a wonderful relationship we sailors have with our charts? At some time or other, it’s likely that most of us have had to carefully study a borrowed harbor chart because we knew we...
Climbing the mast the slow but easy way Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 FOR MOST OF US, GOING TO THE TOP OF the mast for any reason is an ordeal. Even if you are not afraid of heights, the logistics of getting there makes it easy to procrastinate. How- ever a periodic trip to the masthead...
While they may not save the day, they certainly help brighten it Issue 19 : Jul/Aug 2001 Every place has its Cape Horn. At port Cardigan, on the west coast of Wales, where I am an auxiliary harbormaster, it is the estuary bar. The channel shifts in storms and is seldom buoyed. Admiralty charts are...
