To improve your sextant technique; points for the celestial navigator to remember as the height of the boating season approaches. Most important: practice.

Yachting | July 1, 1985| | Copyright

We are about to enter the season when navigators in all yachting areas have an opportunity once again to ply the celestial trade, and it's the ideal time to review some of the ways in which you may be able to improve your own performance. Living as we do in the computer age, and depending in the off-season on textbook examples, it is not surprising that many navigators develop proficiency in the mathematical aspects of sight reduction long before becoming adept with the sextant. This is not to suggest that the sight reduction process is not important. It must always be ...

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