Re: U.S. government sextant specification
Subject: Re: U.S. government sextant specification
From: Jared Sherman (jared.sherman@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 15:38:05 EST
Paul-
I expect the Navy will need to re-examine the manual for climbing out of a pickle barrel, now that the Navistar Classic is out of production and no commercial sextant can meet their needs.
I wonder if C&P had donated the Horizon Ultra's to the Naval Academy, or the spec had simply changed since those were purchased.
Indeed, if the USN has purchased *any* sextants since the 1996 spec was written?
By contrast, I recently read someplace that the older USN spec (post WW2) was +-30 seconds, which had been considered "good enough" apparently.
Any ex-USN navigators amongst us who could shed light?
