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[Fwd: [Fwd: Davis Sextants]]
From: Rick Emerson
Date: 1999 Jan 26, 07:09 EST
From: Rick Emerson
Date: 1999 Jan 26, 07:09 EST
Rick Emerson writes: [...] > > Rick has clearly been better at finding good, used and new sextants at bargain prices > > than I have and I will defer to him on that. > > Gee, I wish my wife was as kind on that point! [grin] > > I don't argue that a potential student should rush out and spend top > dollar on a sextant any more than, in my ski instructor days, I'd > argue for buying top of the line skis to learn to snowplow (sorry, > PSIA, make that "perform a gliding wedge"). I do argue, however, that > below some level, the student's equipment makes the learning process > avoidably more difficult. [...] ARGH!!!! What was I thinking when I wrote the above? "I'd argue for buying top of the line..." That should have been "I'd argue for NOT buying top of the line..." Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... Rick S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= =-= navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=
