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25th April 2017, 22:45
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Sextant prices.
A vernier sextant was sold recently in a local saleroom, it was a real one, not one of the toys,made £80 and it had a heap of bits (scopes etc) with it. Is that about normal? I almost wish I had bought it, but one more bid and who knows where it ends.
I couldn't see any way to read Lat and Long directly from the scale, but Who knows.
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26th April 2017, 08:01
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All a sextant does is measure an angle between two objects. After that the magic happens, requiring paper, pencil, rubber and a big books of tables.
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26th April 2017, 11:14
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And an accurate timepiece?
Thank goodness for all those time signals I piped through to the bridge. I knew we were useful for something as well as running the ships bar and getting the football results!
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26th April 2017, 17:34
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27th April 2017, 06:53
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27th April 2017, 09:30
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I am dumbstruck. I did recognise the sextant, and I didn't go looking for a plug.
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15th November 2017, 06:28
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On a Bank boat I sailed with a second mate who had a vernier sextant. It had a small magnifying glass to make it easier to pick out the coinciding engraved graduations.
As I recall he had bought it whilst an apprentice with E-Ds, which would have been around 17 years before as he was 34 at that time. From Perth, he was the spitting image of James Robertson Justice. (Which has absolutely nothing to do with it).
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15th November 2017, 08:09
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I picked up a "yacht" micrometer sextant back in 1959 -- forget the exact figure although I have it in the back of my mind it was around £5. Was not quite as accurate as a full size sextant, but still got the job done to within a half mile or so.
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15th November 2017, 11:27
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Leave the Spakie jokes to Sparkies Mr. I! (or we'll unplug your GPS).
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15th November 2017, 14:15
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15th November 2017, 16:43
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15th November 2017, 17:35
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I still have my sextant that I purchaced many many yeears ago from Cookes in Hull?.
I was made in 1942 and a vernier style one. I know there are many of us dinosaurs still about but I will not part with it. On E-Bay you can see many for sale and some are replicas.
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15th November 2017, 18:51
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1st December 2017, 15:51
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Personally I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA whenever I enter a room.
My wife says it used to help when we had compact fluorescent lamps which needed time to brighten up !
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1st December 2017, 17:46
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Last edited by vickentallen; 1st December 2017 at 17:48.
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6th December 2017, 03:20
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This is what is played when I enter a room; usually by myself as it's hard to get someone else to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmxHGQNTKSs Of course it doesn't sound quite like that, otherwise I would probably not qualify for membership of this forum but be otherwise engaged, however it conveys the idea.
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6th December 2017, 11:03
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