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Re: The Big Sextant Manufacturers
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 08:42 -0700
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 08:42 -0700
--- jean-philippe planas wrote: > In France we had POULAIN (from Montrouge) sextants > which were a good design with surprising legs on > both side wich enabled to store the sextant in its > transit box in a position where you could directly > grab it by the handle for use. It enabled to store > it "upside down with respect to almost any other > brand. I have seen a Tamaya sextant with legs like that so that you could set it down with the handle facing up. That particular Tamaya sextant, owned by a friend, has a drum for reading the minutes, but no vernier scale on the drum. Still, it is easy enough to visually interpolate to the nearest 0.2 minutes. Chuck Taylor 48 N 122 W __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
