Posted by Mike Field on October 28, 2007 at 12:00:57 from 203.129.42.196 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Longitude, was Time Ball, was Signal Stations posted by Ed Kiser on October 27, 2007 at 16:46:03:
Aha. This is one way the pirates of old had it easy. They'd get themselves into the latitude of, say, Jamaica, make up to windward a few dozen miles, then just jill around waiting to intercept trading vessels who'd reached the right latitude and were running down the longitude till they reached their destination.