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Re: Air travel with a sextant
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Dec 9, 15:11 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Dec 9, 15:11 -0500
Alex-Probably a Pelican case or similar. Pelican has earned their reputation the hard way: Their products simply WORK. By all means, by a Pelican case, large enough to provide 1 better 2 inches of foam all around the sextant. Or perhaps a bit larger to hold your complete nav kit in it. Celestaire no doubt is familiar with how to set up the foam and size the box, but Pelican cases are widely available in several colors and a number of sizes. The last of the C.Plath sextants were shipped in either Pelicans, or something that is similar to them. Beats all hell out of a heavy wood case, although of course it won't have the "hand grasp" to hold the sextant by the arm, like the C&P cases do.