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Re: Is Sextant a generic word?
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

To: bpennino.ce---.net

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

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