NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Beginner
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Sep 13, 02:19 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Sep 13, 02:19 -0500
>> If the error is relatively consistent within a batch, perhaps index error is >> the culprit. I have no first-hand experience with plastic sextants, but >> from what I have read IE appears to vary to much more within a batch, or >> from batch to batch, than does a metal sextant. > > And it does. But I check for this after each sight. > > Asbj?rn Then it must be sextant karma. No easy work arounds for that.Bill