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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: David Pike
Date: 2016 Feb 14, 12:47 -0800
I recommend these for plotting fixes easily in a small boat. Also interesting for those that think about flight celnav. I show how this is done on my website at:
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When you look at the price they’re asking on eBay now for some of the silliest items, $40 ‘Buy Now’ seems quite a good price for a Polhemus. They can’t have produced that many. They could turn out to be like a Bygrave by the year 2060, if anyone’s still around. I’ve got one, but I’m ashamed to say it’s one of the items in my ‘to be used when I get around to it’ cupboard. Everything about it is great apart from the colour of the case, which is a yucky flesh pink reminiscent of a CPR mannequin. DaveP
