NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Bob GW
Date: 2020 Oct 14, 10:21 -0700
Thank goodness for that. I thought it was just my eyes, or the age of my sextant. True the books don’t mention it, but they happily tell you to swing the sextant like a real sailor man to find the vertical, and there wouldn’t be much point in doing that you weren’t getting a reflection of the body from the clear horizon glass for at least some of the swing.
It’s more of a problem using an artificial horizon, especially if you’re an edge to edge enthusiast. It’s sometimes a job worki Thank goodness for that. I thought it was just my eyes, or the age of my sextant. True the books don’t mention it, but they happily tell you to swing the sextant like a real sailor man to find the vertical, and there wouldn’t be much point in doing that you weren’t getting a reflection of the body from the clear horizon glass for at least some of the swing.
What is an edge to edge enthusiast mean?
