Year: 2005 Language: English Author: Evans A. Genre: Manual Publisher: Foolish Muse Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 27 Description: Last Christmas, Santa gave me a beautiful new Davis Mark 3 Sextant. Over the next three months I borrowed five books and two videos from the public library, but was more confused than ever: • The chapters don’t follow a logical order and there was no summation. • They don’t include any of the key data sheets or tell me where to find them. Their examples look different from what I could find. • They assume that I am on the deck of an aircraft carrier, rather than bucking the waves on my 30’sailboat with the tiller under my knee. • They add correction factors and decimal points to 1/10thof a mile. I just want to find Hawaii! • They expect levels of accuracy in measurement of speed and direction that are completely unrealistic on a normal sailboat. It took hours of painful concentration to get a good handle on Celestial Navigation. I’ve written this guide so that you can skip the research and go right to practice. If Santa brings you a Davis Mark 3, you should be able to find yourself before Christmas dinner!
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Step-by-Step Sextant Users Guide
Language: English
Author: Evans A.
Genre: Manual
Publisher: Foolish Muse
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 27
Description: Last Christmas, Santa gave me a beautiful new Davis Mark 3 Sextant. Over the next three months I borrowed
five books and two videos from the public library, but was more confused than ever:
• The chapters don’t follow a logical order and there was no summation.
• They don’t include any of the key data sheets or tell me where to find them. Their examples look different from what I could find.
• They assume that I am on the deck of an aircraft carrier, rather than bucking the waves on my 30’sailboat with the tiller under my knee.
• They add correction factors and decimal points to 1/10thof a mile. I just want to find Hawaii!
• They expect levels of accuracy in measurement of speed and direction that are completely unrealistic on a normal sailboat.
It took hours of painful concentration to get a good handle on Celestial Navigation. I’ve written this guide so
that you can skip the research and go right to practice. If Santa brings you a Davis Mark 3, you should be able
to find yourself before Christmas dinner!
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