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Old Sep 12, 2003 | 2:13 pm
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l etoile
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I reveal the answer soon. But I apologize to some of you who did some extra work for not being a more specific. The miles given were nautical miles. And the speed was given in knots.

Why it was off ... someone forgot to make the conversion to time.

DHammer: If only. I think we would have got about three bottles under that criteria.
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