NavList:

Murray

I regret my marine sextant work has just been playing around on land.  The nearest I've got to using a sea horizon is from a seaside promenade shelter.  All my marine nav has been pilotage with a hand bearing compass, a very rudementary radio compass, a very rudementary Decca set, and latterly twin Garmin GPS 12s (two in case I dropped one).  Its nice to have one on the washboards and one on the nav-table/cooker cover. I might have had the chance for a sextant sight on my few North Sea crossings, but at the time I wasn't that interested, and on my two North Sea crossings in TIKI with one unqualified assistant there was too much else to think about. I'd love to try it now, but at 80 in November, I can't see myself leaving the Humber again, especially as our current yacht Doranne is only 17ft long.  I'm thinking of mounting a 3Volt Kollsman in our river cruier if only to try and escape the local light polution.  We'll see.  DaveP