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Peter Fogg wrote:
>>From: Lu Abel
>>Along that line, I will eat crow on my earlier posting and say that I'd
>>take the price of one of the extra GPS receivers and use it instead to
>>purchase a plastic sextant
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> My respectful suggestion is to think seriously of putting the extra money
> towards a metal sextant.
As the problem was stated, one has $1000 for navigation instruments.
Within these limits, the choice would be three GPS sets and a Davis
plastic sextant, or two GPS sets and an Astra III (and that even pushes
the envelope because the Astra III costs right around $500 alone,
leaving no money for calculators, NAs, etc, etc.
We're talking about the sextant being a backup navigation instrument,
not the primary one, so I must ask why you think a Davis Mk 15 or Mk 25
wouldn't be up to the task.
Lu Abel
Lu Abel
