Couldn't you have the SR tables & almanac on a PDA, mini-computer or phone :)
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
At 02:24 PM 16/01/2014, you wrote:
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
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Don Newman
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
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.
Fair winds and calm seas.
Don Newman
C&C 44
> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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