>Gee, there's this thing call something like collander or calendar. Used >to be seen in any good barber shop or garage. It had these pages that >flipped with each month on a separate one and a nice picture too, >usually a nude strategically holding a set of wrenches and wearing a >shop apron, things like that. If you could tear your eyes away from the >picture and look at the month, you would see these little filled in and >empty circles and half spheres next to some of the dates, meaning full >moon, new moon and half moons. Retrieving a future month's information >was fairly easy, turn the calendar's screen by hands like you would a >scroll button and voila it would appear with its appropriate moon >phases, and the nude might be wearing a Santa Claus hat. > >This tradition is still preserved in source books like Eldridge Tide and >Pilot Book, alas, minus the nudes :-). And it has additional critical >information...what dates the moon is in perigee and apogee, which has >about the same effect on tides and currents as do the moon phases. If >you have the moon full or new and in perigee (closest to earth in its >orbit) watch out!!! > >ralph >-- They still make those manual calender thing a magigs ? I thought you could only see them things in a museum, If its not on line it don't really exist does it??? Dana *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jun 01 1998 - 16:33:55 PDT
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