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Re: Wanted: Small Craft Precision Sextant from Francis Barker
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2007 Jan 20, 20:56 -0600
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2007 Jan 20, 20:56 -0600
In the late 80s, we (Celestaire) bought the entire remaining stock, some 36 , from Francis Barker. These have all been long ago sold at retail, and I am sure no dealer has them anymore. I might mention that in the 36 units, all had defective sunshades. Instead of installing half shade glasses in the holders, they put solid sunshades, which prevented the horizon from being visible. Thus the sextant was useless for sun sights. We discovered this problem about half way through the sales, and sent the 18 units back to Barker for correction, which they did. The others are still out there somewhere, and surprisingly, no one complained. I mention this in case some defective units may show up on ebay, and should be guarded against. It would be very difficult to repair them on your own. Ken On 1/20/07 3:09 AM, "Geomat"wrote: > > I know of the Small Craft Precision Sextant (a boxsextant) produced by > the british firm Francis Barker & Son at the end of the 1980's. I've > seen the sextant in two types: a dark-grey og a beige version. Normally > the sextants are in a small leather case. Today the firm Francis Barker > has been taken over by Pyser-SGI Limited, and they don't produce the > sextant anymore (I've been in contact with the firm). > > I'm interested in buying a couple of these specific instruments from > Francis Barker and from the 1980's, but they seem quite difficult to > find on the net. Could anyone help me with a name/adress of a dealer? > > You can see a photo of this specific sextant on: > http://www.gilai.com/scripts/more/sni664-navigational-Navigational+Instruments > -no.html > > /Jesper (www.geomat.dk) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---