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Re: GPS shortcomings.
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Jun 8, 16:41 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Jun 8, 16:41 -0700
Peter Fogg wrote: >>From: Lu Abel >>Along that line, I will eat crow on my earlier posting and say that I'd >>take the price of one of the extra GPS receivers and use it instead to >>purchase a plastic sextant > > > My respectful suggestion is to think seriously of putting the extra money > towards a metal sextant. As the problem was stated, one has $1000 for navigation instruments. Within these limits, the choice would be three GPS sets and a Davis plastic sextant, or two GPS sets and an Astra III (and that even pushes the envelope because the Astra III costs right around $500 alone, leaving no money for calculators, NAs, etc, etc. We're talking about the sextant being a backup navigation instrument, not the primary one, so I must ask why you think a Davis Mk 15 or Mk 25 wouldn't be up to the task. Lu Abel Lu Abel
