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Old 02-06-2007
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You know, I would hate to see light houses dissapear - though I could give a crap about Loran. For me, it is always wierdly reassuring to come in from sea or be making a passage at night and see the light (visually, not on some chart screen or paper map with a plotted course). I don't use it for navigation, per se, but when I have made a passage at night and am coming in, to see that light is always reassuring to know my chart plotter has not been lying!!! Weird, I know. Maybe it is just me.
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