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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Sep 12, 17:41 -0700
Tom,
Always good to have another Privateer aboard (aka. Domer). I'm class of 80 so did my summers on the T.S. Empire State V in the late 70's. We could have been issued the exact same US Navy mark 2 sextant. They were old clunkers but got the job done. We may have had the same Profs.-Hess, Parnham, Sembler, Paulus, Dooley, Thor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_V
Greg Rudzinski
From: Tom Mackie
Date: 2015 Sep 11, 16:16 -0700Tom, you talked about learning celestial in the 1980s. Was that at a maritime academy? Did you do sights on a school ship back then?
Frank Reed
Conanicut Island USAThanks Frank,
yes - NY Maritime {at} Ft. Schuyler. 3 Summer sea terms were aboard the TS Empire State V. We were issued sextants (well used, worn out,old) and usually had a routine for morning stars, two morning sun shots, noon fix, a couple of afternoon running fixes and evening stars during the Atlantic crossings.
Tom
