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From: Gordon Talge
Date: 1998 Jan 14, 6:53 PM
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 1998 Jan 14, 6:53 PM
Since everyone seems to be talking about what sextant they have, not to be left out, I thought I would talk about mine. I have the "Freiberger Drum Sextant" with the traditional mirror a few years back. I forgot exactly what I paid for it, but it now listed in the Celestaire Cat. for about $ 950. I really haven't used it that much, being kind of landlocked most of the time. Given it to do all over again, I think I would go for the Astra IIIB for about $420 to $460 depending on the regular or deluxe version. My uncle has a boat down at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and has sailed down to Mexico across the Gulf using an Astra IIIB with no GPS at the time. Got there just fine. As for the plastic sextants. I have a Davis MK 3 and I've seen the MK 15 and MK 25. They are OK I guess, as they do work, but let's get real. Plastic sextants are just junk when stacked up to a traditional metal one. ( I am not saying this to put anyone that has one down, I used the MK 3 for about 15 years, couldn't afford anything else ) -- Gordon ,,, (. .) +-----------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------+ | Gordon Talge WB6YKK e-mail: gtalge@pe.net | | Department of Mathematics QTH: Loma Linda, CA | | St. Joseph High School Lat. N 34� 03.1' | | Lakewood, California Long. W 117� 15.2' | | http://www.stjosephs.pvt.k12.ca.us | +--------------------------------------------------------+ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@ronin.com: =-=-= navigation =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-