Subject: NJ-NY-US<br/>
Date: Jun 21, 2001 @ 02:22<br/>
Author: Jack Parsell (&quot;Jack Parsell&quot; &lt;jparsell@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1959525331">When we set sail May 19 on the QE2 I had hopes of getting<br/>
close enough to NJ-NY-US to get a picture close to the <br/>
point. By the time we got out of New York harbor and under <br/>
the bridge, the light was already starting to fade and it <br/>
was hazy.  I stayed up on the bow for quite a while with <br/>
my GPS but didn&#39;t want to miss dinner so I quit when we <br/>
were still about ten miles from the tri-point.  I took a <br/>
picture in the right direction but I&#39;m sure it is far <br/>
down on Mike&#39;s list of tri-point verification numbers.<br/>
<br/>
We did get to check out the Prime Meridian and my GPS was<br/>
only off 0.2 second using European 1979 Datum. I got a zero<br/>
reading by moving about 11 feet into the Eastern Hemispere.<br/>
It was a holiday and there was nobody at the observatory <br/>
who knew anything about the datum base.<br/>
<br/>
Jack</div>