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From: Jerry Mason
Date: 2016 Jan 7, 06:35 -0800
From: Jerry Mason
Date: 2016 Jan 7, 06:35 -0800
I am a retired USN pilot and administrator of the uboatarchive.net website. I want to learn to use my sextant (which to now I had used only with the aid of a computer) as U-boat navigators did. I have gotten as a far as my first sun sights reduced with HO229 - so far so good. I understand that U-boat Navigators probably used a Nautical Almanac plus the F-Tafel for sight reduction. If anyone has some insight or references I would like to get in touch. My e-mail is s3bpilot@telus.net Best Regards, Jerry