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For those of you that are Predicted Loggers and those of you who enjoy navigation as a part of boating:
"The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly making its way through the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought the Master, Captain John Phillips the result. Their position was latitude 0 degrees X 31' north and longitude 179 degrees X 30' west. The date was 31 December 1899. Captain Phillips called his navigators to the bridge to check and double check the ships position. He changed course and at midnight the Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line! The bow of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere and the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere and in the middle of winter. The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899. Forward it was 1 January 1900. The ship was therefore not only in two different days, two different months, two different seasons, and two different years, but in two different centuries at the same time."
"The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly making its way through the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought the Master, Captain John Phillips the result. Their position was latitude 0 degrees X 31' north and longitude 179 degrees X 30' west. The date was 31 December 1899. Captain Phillips called his navigators to the bridge to check and double check the ships position. He changed course and at midnight the Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line! The bow of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere and the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere and in the middle of winter. The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899. Forward it was 1 January 1900. The ship was therefore not only in two different days, two different months, two different seasons, and two different years, but in two different centuries at the same time."