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Even in a world full of electronic gizmos such as Loran and GPS, there will always be a place for the sextant aboard any blue-water boat, if only for the thrill and mystery of charting your position on the seas by gazing at the heavens. Here is the indispensable reference that should accompany the sextant aboard. Cmdr. Bruce Bauer, a professional navigator and master mariner with the U.S. Merchant Marine, has distilled years of hands-on experience into an eminently readable guide to buying, adjusting, using, and repairing sextants.
The Sextant Handbook is dedicated to the premise that electronic navigation devices, while too convenient to disregard, are too vulnerable to rely on exclusively. The Sextant Handbook is designed to make beginner and expert alike conversant with this most beautiful and functional of the navigator's tools.
