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GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant: All Instructions and Tables Included; For Any Ocean, on Any Date; No Background in Celestial Navigation Required.
No power, and batteries used up? This book and an inexpensive Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on. Alternatively, if you want to learn a basic celestial navigation position fix for any reason with minimum investment, this book shows how to do that.
It's a short book, mostly tables. You can read it in an hour or two, master the sights in less than that, and find your position the next time you see the noonday sun.
Our guiding principle for this booklet was to provide a means of learning and executing a position fix at sea when a vessel has lost its GPS navigation. We wanted a solution that is compact and inexpensive, using tables and procedures that are easy to learn and use. This goal led to our proposing a minimum kit that mariners would not hesitate to add to their gear to cover the unlikely situation it would actually be needed. Mariners who cross oceans in small boats realize they must be self-reliant and cover all contingencies.
For those who did not have the chance to learn the full range of celestial navigation, this booklet and a Mark 3 sextant provide a minimum backup that can be used to navigate across any ocean if needed.
The almanac pages included have been custom designed to facilitate fast, easy solutions for Lat and Lon from the sun, plus we include a unique new Regiment of the North Star for easy Latitude by Polaris sights on any date.
It's a short book, mostly tables. You can read it in an hour or two, master the sights in less than that, and find your position the next time you see the noonday sun.
Our guiding principle for this booklet was to provide a means of learning and executing a position fix at sea when a vessel has lost its GPS navigation. We wanted a solution that is compact and inexpensive, using tables and procedures that are easy to learn and use. This goal led to our proposing a minimum kit that mariners would not hesitate to add to their gear to cover the unlikely situation it would actually be needed. Mariners who cross oceans in small boats realize they must be self-reliant and cover all contingencies.
For those who did not have the chance to learn the full range of celestial navigation, this booklet and a Mark 3 sextant provide a minimum backup that can be used to navigate across any ocean if needed.
The almanac pages included have been custom designed to facilitate fast, easy solutions for Lat and Lon from the sun, plus we include a unique new Regiment of the North Star for easy Latitude by Polaris sights on any date.
105 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2018
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April 18, 2020
Sigh of Relief
40 or so years ago I seem to have a read a booklet similar to this, and I would not find it. It is a FABULOUS backup to electronic failure nowadays, but even as recent as 30 years ago when I sailed to Bermuda using HO249, something of this sort could have been worked out solely in the cockpit,should,the other tables have gone overboard ....
40 or so years ago I seem to have a read a booklet similar to this, and I would not find it. It is a FABULOUS backup to electronic failure nowadays, but even as recent as 30 years ago when I sailed to Bermuda using HO249, something of this sort could have been worked out solely in the cockpit,should,the other tables have gone overboard ....
November 16, 2018
Very informative
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