The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, Use and History.

The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, Use and History.
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1986 · Camden, Maine

by Bauer, Cmdr. Bruce A., USN (ret.).
Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing Company, (1986). Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 191 pp. Very Good+, in a Very Good+ dust jacket. From dust jacket: From the moment we start thinking about sailing offshore, we’re taught the sextant is a device that is not to be tampered with. This can be risky business for the ocean voyager, for celestial navigation can be only as precise as the instrument itself. Daily use, a bump, a jostle, temperature, humidity, even long periods of non-use, can throw the instrument off.. And if that most (truncated)
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