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Re: Advice on Box Sextant
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2016 Apr 1, 15:16 -0700
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2016 Apr 1, 15:16 -0700
"dismantled the sextant and put it away in its case." Francis, could he have meant detaching the telescope? With a standard marine sextant, you don't disassemble or dismantle it, you just put it in its box, close the lid and stow it. Hewitt > On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Francis Upchurchwrote: > > "dismantled the sextant and put it away in its case."