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I went to visit John Weatherlake, the inventor of the EBBCO in 1978.
I found him in his garage, putting them together.  At the time his
address was Wargrave Rd, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (George, aren't you
from Oxon?).  We had a kindly chat about my importing them to the US,
which we later did for a few years, until the Davis sextants came
out.  The advertising literature of that time listed a 16 page
instructional booklet that came with the sextant.  I still have the
literature, but not the booklet.  Until a few years ago a French
company (either Topoplastic, or Plastimo) was selling the EBBCO under
the name of ANTARES.  I will be seeing some of these people in Europe
in Nov, and will try to track down the latest on EBBCO.

Ken Gebhart
On Jul 22, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Hewitt Schlereth wrote:

>
> I had occasion to contact EBBCO a year ago for a replacement horizon
> mirror assembly. Found they had no emai address. I did find a
> snail-mail address by Googling "East Berks Boat Company", but the
> letter I wrote came back "addressee unknown."
>
> -Hewitt
>
> On 7/22/09, frankreed@historicalatlas.com
>  wrote:
>>
>>  sselckmann, you wrote:
>>  "looking for a manual for a plastic ebbco sextant "
>>
>>
>> You really shouldn't need a manual per se for that instrument. It
>> is a straight-forward, standard sextant apart from the materials
>> used in its construction. Do you have any specific questions?
>> Would you like recommendations on basic books on sextant
>> adjustment and use?
>>
>>  -FER
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>
> >


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