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Dennis C.
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> From: Jim Watts <[email protected]>
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>Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 5:43 PM
>Subject: Re: Stus-List Redundant instrumentation / tools
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>On our latest cruise, we put the portable GPS and one of the VHF handhelds
>into the oven whenever there was any electrical activity. Better chance than
>zero.
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>Jim Watts
>Paradigm Shift
>C&C 35 Mk III
>Victoria, BC
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>On 16 January 2014 14:24, Andrew Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
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>I own a nice 1954 Plath sextant that I used to make my living for a couple of
>decades. The novelty has kind of warn off. Remember, it's not just the
>sextant, but at least two volumes of HO 249 plus the almanac.
>>That being said, I'd never tell a crewmember there wasn't room for their
>>sextant aboard any boat I was on.
>>
>>Andy
>>C&C 40
>>Peregrine
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>>On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Don Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>The odds are slim but you could loose all electronics including that
>>transistor radio from a close lightning strike and a plastic sextant is cheap
>>and light.
>>>
>>>Working on computers since 1965 has destroyed any faith I have in any
>>>electronic device working when I really need it.
>>>
>>>I am sure you will always find a safe harbour but we need to encourage
>>>everyone to plan ahead and understand the basic tools first.
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>>>Fair winds and calm seas.
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>>>
>>>Don Newman
>>>C&C 44
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>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> True, Don. and depending on how far away I am, I to doubt I'd find
>>>> Bermuda, so on to my destination...unless I had a portable radio I could
>>>> make use as a makeshift RDF, or was within 50 miles and could get Bermuda
>>>> Radio to give me a bearing on my VHF signal.
>>>>
>>>> Given all the crap I have to pack on these trips, not having to take a
>>>> sextant along--and get it through security without some bozo TSA agent
>>>> picking it up by the arm and then getting it in the overhead bin without
>>>> it being banged around, etc.--saves a lot of trouble.
>>>>
>>>> I can use a hand-bearing compass to tell whether someone's gaining or
>>>> losing
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>>Andrew Burton
>>61 W Narragansett Ave
>>Newport, RI
>>USA 02840
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