FWIW: Meander shows up twice (NC & Oz) on the members list on Sailblogs. Would suggest that it's rather popular with the seafaring non-surveyors.
> By the way I'm looking for suggestions for a name for her that will tie Surveying and Sailing together.
Four Hundreths to the wind
LOL, that's good stuff right there.
How about Traverse?(Drat, Don had that one first) If MSM that applies to going cross wind while tacking against the wind.
Or Meander LINE, In PLSS surveying that nearly always means a river or body of water nearby.
Plumb Bobber
this is easy...
Hub & Tack.
this is easy...
Dave;
I like that a lot.
RRain
A suggestion from a yahoo group of Alacrity Owners:
Colpa
Old Irish measure of land equal to an amount of land able to support a horse or cow for a year. An Irish acre of good land is also an Approximation of its' definition.
RRain
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That's great Adam. I've probably worked with that contractor before.