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Hi Frank yes my Simex Mariner is equipped with polarized shades and is
certainly a nice feature!
Very cool u have autographed copy and any additional info on him and school
would be appeciated!
Thanks much!
Mike Burkes


>From: FJones 
>Reply-To: Navigation Mailing List 
>To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
>Subject: Simex, Coast Navigation and Captain Svend T. Simonsen
>Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:57:55 -0500
>
>Captain Svend T. Simonsen should be referenced and not
>Sorreson.  Svend autographed a copy of Blue Water Navigation,
>(Cornell Maritime Press, 1947) for me in 1969.  Thumbing through
>the yellowed pages bring back memories from long ago.
>
>I also remember purchasing one of the Simex sextants from Coast
>Navigation (Santa Barbara, CA) then and discovered it was made by
>Tamaya.  I don't recall it being equipped with polarizing shades
>however.
>
>Frank Jones
>Rochester, NY

   

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