NavList:

> > Now when is the best spot on a sail boat to stow the sextant?

> If it is your boat, Bauer suggest screwing the box

On the boats I traveled the box of SNO fits in a shelf,
usually in "standing position". On some other shelves it fits
in a horizontal position. As my box also has rubber legs on two
sides I suppose it is OK to store it in any of the
two possible positions "legs down".
Depending on circumstances I used the shelf in the capitan cabin,
the shelf over the chart table, and the shelf in my own cabin.
I usually secure it with a rope on the shelf, though it is unlikely
to fall out unless the boat turns its mast down.

It seems inconvenient to me to secure the box permanently with
screws. I find it convenient to take the sextant to the deck
TOGETHER with the box. And secure the box on the top
of the companionway with a rope. This permits me to wait
on the deck for a convenient moment for observation with my hands free.
Running up and down with my sextant in my hand (or hanging on the neck)
in a swinging boat I find extremelly inconvenient.
To min imize the number of such travels I prefer to secure the box
outside at the times when I am likely to make observations.

Alex.

P.S. Of course the pocket sextant I used this summer has a hudge
advantage: it fits in my pocket TOGETHER with its box:-)


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