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: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jan 29, 16:49 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jan 29, 16:49 -0800
Frank,
Many of the NavList members have multiple sextants and octants. My collection is used as follows:
Aircraft cockpit- U.S. Navy MK 5 bubble octant
Ship bridge- Tamaya Jupiter with 7x35mm scope
Saiboat cockpit- C&P whole horizon mirror with 4x40mm scope
On land using an artificial horizon- U.S. Navy MK 3 M.Low with x2 scope
If weight and space is an issue in a traveling situation then I have no problem going with the plastic EBBCO.
Greg Rudzinski
From: Frank Atkins
Date: 2015 Jan 26, 14:46 -0800I tried out a recently purchased Astra IIIB yesterday. Suitably impressed.
Not new but never used by the look and feel of it.
Frank A.
