anyone have

[longliner45]

does anyone have a nice sextant for sale??longliner

[jeff spinney]

dude you totally said sex

[longliner45]

dammit jeff ,,your only gonna keep gettin points for smart ass comments like that,,,,longliner,,,now find me a sextant

[Frosty]

When I went to buy my #$%tant years ago( it wasnt me that wanted it it was a friend) I was embarrassed by a young girl working at the chandlers. I walked around looking at stuff hoping a male person would come along.

No wonder my friend sent me in to buy it.

Eventually she came to me and asked if she could help , I just could'nt say the word so I bought a packet of chewing gum instead.

I dont know what a #$%tant is but with a name like that I can only imagine it is something to do with having babies.

I dont like chewing gum.

[PAR]

Be a man John and tack a string to a protractor and have a go at it.

[longliner45]

if I wanted to get beat up ,,,,,I just would have stayed home,,longliner

[SamSam]

Go to E-bay and search for 'sextant'. There's about 150 of them.

[longliner45]

thanks ..any brand I should look for?

[timgoz]

I think C-Plath (sp) may have stopped making them. They were good. I had a mid-sized Heath ex- RN sextant.

Good hunting Longliner.

Tim

[Landlubber]

Try the Japanese Tamaya brand if you want precision engineering. My one has zero index error, one less thing to have to correct too!

[Frosty]

You Ok over there Lubber, been snowing a bit I hear.

Hey you might be interested in a new invention called a GPS . Wow this thing is a bitch, you would'nt beleive it.

[longliner45]

ya gotta see my point of view,,I work for the power company ,,I see people who are not prepard ,,every day,,,,powers out..we are freezing,,,,,(were is your kerosene heater ,or wood stove?)the power is out I cant see( were is your candles or oil lamp)?? yes tecnology is great ,,if all support systems are in place,I just want to be able to navigate ,,anywhere ,,any time ,besides my cheap ass can get buy with a 2 or 3 hundred dollar sextant ,till I can spend 2 or 3 grand on some nav stuff,,,I will have 2 grand tied up in a bottom machine ,,cause,we are gonna be fishing off this boat,,,longliner

[Frosty]

I thought you had to be able to see the horizon to make use of a $#$tant


Hey theres this new invention called Batteries ,--its a bitch of a thing . It can make electricity anywhere unbeleivable

[Landlubber]

Get out Frosty, no way you can have electricity anywhere you want to!

Next you will be telling me that you can store it in a box!! Ha Ha, and some people reckon we can fly too!

[Frosty]

No its true I tell you. I buy them at the supermarket. Its not in a box at all that would be silly but in a tube thing. We got loads of them here Im surprised you hav'nt heard of them.

[ted655]

:mad: All that &**&% tax money we paid to get those satellites up there & you want a sextant???? If you want to be that "retro", build one!
:D :D :D :D :D
I suppose you want to borrow my copy of Duttons also?:)

[longliner45]

govt facillilitys are really poorly operated ,,most times loran towers used to go out regularly,,,,I dont want to depend on the govt for anything,,,,,,no pun intended but look at the New Orleans resque operation,,how could that have been botch so bad ,,cmon ,,reporters getting there in 4 wheel drive trucks ,,but military vehicals couldent ,,,,,no helos no food and water for weeks,cant count on no one ,,,,,,,,,longliner

[Landlubber]

I would still take the *@*tant to sea, who knows when the sats will be down. I was off New Caledonia once (during the Gulf War) and my 40 footer was showing 70 knots on the display, kind of fast I thought, so abandoned the rest of the messages too. Upon arrival into Noumea, the HarbourMaster informed me that we were at war with Iraq, and the satelites had been shut down for civy use.......the *@*tant was not actually used then, but it was still nice as a backup to the Furuno RDF (that I still have too, oh yeah Frosty, it does use batteries!!!!).

Just on another note, has anyone out there on planet earth actually been able to consistantly get anything better than about 5 miles using one on a yacht? I sat once in very calm waters in Fiji (Maloola Lie Lie island) and you can see the horizon from the anchorage, tried for days to do any better but to no avail. I reckon those that calaim to do 2-3 miles regularly are up themselves. However, 5 miles certainly takes you from navitating to piloting, so visuals come back into the game, and they are very hard to beat. Just wondering.......

[Frosty]

5 miles? you did well there, I can do about 50, which is not much good trying to get into harbour but adrift in the Atlantic in a dinghy!!

By the way did you know that the Azimuth in Hong Kong is about 20 minutes passed 12 noon. I know I know, --the "about" bit is not good enough.

[Kay9]

Weems and Path, C-Plath make some...Make sure you get the artificial horizion bubble, also you will need HO-249

Lets see here are some links.
http://www.landfallnavigation.com/celnav.html
http://celestaire.com/page11.html

[Landlubber]

For those interested, there are other tables beside 229 and 249.
Martelles tables are a very simple book, sure it is not as accurate as the air or sea tables, but , hey, they are a snack to use, and as state before, you are not going to do better than about 5 miles anyhow, these tables are sure better than that. have a gander if you do not have a copy.