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Re: Latitude and Longitude by "Noon Sun"
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Jun 7, 09:32 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2005 Jun 7, 09:32 -0700
Frank Reed wrote: > Lu Abel you wrote: > "I don't see noon sights vs LOP sights as an either-or proposition -- at > least not for a "good" navigator (which I hope all on this list would > claim they either are or aspire to). " > > A good navigator is the guy who pulls a functioning spare GPS receiver out > of a metal box after your vessel has been struck by lightning and all the > other electronics are fried!No argument from me on that one, Frank. A few years ago I posted a question I'll re-ask: If you were about to depart on a circumnavigation and had a $1000 budget for navigation instruments, what would you purchase? I don't know about others, but for $1K I could buy four high-quality GPS receivers and a whole lot of batteries. I'd use one and keep the others, as Frank noted, sealed in plastic bags inside in a waterproof metal box. Oh, and if I had a few bucks left over I might buy a used Davis plastic sextant, just so I could look nautical and impress the tourists ("argh, ye landlubbers, what a perfect noon shot I just got") Lu Abel
