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Re: Beginner / Davis Plastic Sextants
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2005 Sep 17, 20:40 -0700

--- Herbert Prinz wrote:

> I am wondering about Starpath's recommendation of
> the Mark 3 as
>
> "... the sextant of choice for coastal piloting."
...
>
> What applications do they have in mind?

I should think that they have in mind distance off by
vertical angles (height of a lighthouse etc) and
horizontal angles.  For those applications I would
agree that a Davis Mark 3 would be quite adequate.

Chuck Taylor
North of Seattle

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