Hi Mark -

The first liar never stands a chance, does he? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

BTW, according to Einstein, if you turn around and drive 100mph the other way, your speed will drop to 66,493mph. It's a bit strange to consider that you're actually going backward while driving 100mph forward.

I experienced that once when trolling at 3 knots in a southerly direction at what I thought was the edge of the Gulf Stream off Morehead City, NC. I was actually inside a fast-moving northerly current and when I looked at the Loran a couple of hours later, I was several miles further to the north than my starting point, so I had been moving backward over the sea bottom while steaming forward through the water. Now when I condidered the rotational direction of the earth and earth's orbital direction within the solar system, oriented it all toward an Earth polar North reference, allowed for magnetic compass deviation, corrected for RF wave distortion and resulting time/distance miscalculation in the Loran, checked to see how much the CIA and NSA were degrading the Loran signals, allowed for wind drift and attempted to calculate my speed, direction and position............... I decided to have another beer and follow the other boats home. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Frank <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />