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Re: Tamaya Venus MS-933
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2004 Dec 22, 08:25 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2004 Dec 22, 08:25 -0700
I have a Tamaya Venus sextant and I think it is a
terrific little unit. It is very well made and has a good feel to
it. It does feel rather small compared to full-sized sextants, but I have
large hands.
On land I did some shots of the sun with it and
compared them to my actual GPS position, and here were the
results:
2.73 nmi
-0.46 nmi
-0.83 nmi
-0.31 nmi
-0.86 nmi
-0.53 nmi
-0.99 nmi
-1.58 nmi
-0.74 nmi
-0.51 nmi
-0.23 nmi
-0.85 nmi
-0.55 nmi
-0.54 nmi
for an average error of -0.44 nmi. Not
bad.
Dan
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Subject: Re: Tamaya Venus MS-933
In those days my company Nautech Maritime Corporation was the importer of
all Tamaya navigation instruments and was instrumental in the design of the MS
733, 833, 933, and NC 2 Navigation calculator. Ken Gebhart used to buy his
Tamaya sextants from us as did all other companies. We are still incontact with
the past owner of Tamaya today.
Here is a link to what I recalled about the first Venus sextant that
was sent us as a pre-production sample. It was never a big seller, maybe
because I didn't beleive in reduced size sextants. There was a discussion
about their limitations by this group.
BTW, Nautech was sold to Coast Navigation in Sept, 1978, and in Nov,
Julie and I embarked on six years of ocean cruising in our 62 foot
ketch, Bagheera.
All great memories. Merry Christmas,
Joel Jacobs
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