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Message: [QUOTE="Bill West, post: 58598, member: 136520"] Capt’n, in this paper the course is trimmed at Sunday noon to 241TC. Inside the calculations it is more exactly 240d 33.5’ per Lowe which at 126 miles is about 0.1’ from 42/47. But Sam, maybe the 2nd para should clarify the distinction between The Corner at 42/47 & 126 miles and The Turn given in the 2nd from the last para as 4.5 miles southwest (and 11-12 minutes later) at 5:50pm. Because the delay is well known and because I put all of this in sequence on a spreadsheet to understand it before I tried evaluating it, I had readily caught the distinction but maybe it needs emphasis. As far as Lowe’s 126 miles Sunday noon to The Corner versus Pitman’s 110.5 I too have tabulated this trip and have drawn yet another set of conclusions. But Sam’s advantage over me is that he has published, if I catch up then maybe I can challenge his points and we can reduce them to a sounder conclusion. In the mean time however I can’t fairly criticize his detailed paper when my counterpoint is an incomplete paper. At least not as far as making logical sounding argument segments when they might easily fall apart if I was forced to show them all connected together and fitted with all the other pieces of known evidence. For instance I’m using a northward drifting course that makes Friday’s turn at noon and passes straight through the 7pm LaTouraine message on its way to Saturday noon but I hardly expect any one to believe it because it depends on several other points that I have not presented groundwork for. Bill [/QUOTE]

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