
NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Paul Dolkas
Date: 2016 Dec 9, 13:19 -0800
You could always answer that you’re sorry, but you don’t know how to translate its name from Klingon.
Paul Dolkas
From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Bruce J. Pennino
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 5:29 AM
To: paul@dolkas.net
Subject: [NavList] Re: Is Sextant a generic word?
Hello:
Once a person asked me if I was testing water quality (at the edge of Cape Cod Bay 20 ft above the waterline). Go figure or beat that!
Best wishes and Holiday Joy to all.
Bruce
From: Frank Reed
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 9:13 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Is Sextant a generic word?
Gary, you wrote:
" to non-technical people they are all sextants"
In my experience in the past few years, to non-technical people they are all "funny-looking cameras". :)
Frank Reed