NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Most commonly used/preferred sextant among NavList members
From: Randall Morrow
Date: 2015 Jan 27, 16:39 -0800
From: Randall Morrow
Date: 2015 Jan 27, 16:39 -0800
My Astra IIIB has served me well for 4 years and over 6000 observations. It is essentially error free as any metal sextant is likely to be. The quality of the sea horizon is far more likely to cause error than the instrument or anything else.