Buying a sextant....

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Buying a sextant....
30 January 2004, 0:00 AM

emmylou
Joined 30 Jan 2004
1 posts

Please help! I'm determined to learnt o navigate the good old fashoined way, but am having real trouble finding a practical, sturdy and reasonably priced (preferably an Astra IIIb) sextant in the uk. So far all roads point to a bigger overdraft or shipping one in from the USA. Does anyone know of any chandlers/shops in the south east (or vaguely near) that could help?

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Buying a sextant....
8 March 2004, 0:00 AM

bobfrost
Joined 2 Jul 2002
1 posts

Can't help but would be interested to hear how much you could save by shipping from US

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Buying a sextant....
17 April 2004, 12:57 PM

Rob
Joined 28 Feb 2004
3 posts

Hello Emmylou, having used a sextant since the fifties the best advice I can give you is, in the first instance, to procure a cheap, well used instrument that probably has enough errors on it for you to learn how to correct them. Try to get one in its original box so that you can also practice how to take it out of the box without dropping it. I am not being facetious, for years this was a favourite manoeuver demanded by examiners of 2nd Mates candidates. New, half decent sextants have always been fairly expensive, but if you do learn to navigate "the good old fqashioned way" you'll probably keep the old "cheapie" you buy to practice on. Bon voyage, Robin.

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Buying a sextant....
5 May 2004, 10:43 PM

Innes
Joined 5 May 2004
1 posts

emmylou
Kelvin Hughes in Southampton stock a range of new sextants starting from £300, alternativly check out ebay, there are often some good buys there.
If you need any help with the learning we run astro nav courses- check out the website at http://www.stormforce.biz

Best of luck
doug

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Buying a sextant....
12 June 2004, 12:52 PM

mymaryb
Joined 12 Jun 2004
1 posts

Hello,

I am a dealer for new and used sextants in the United States. We have a special sale on ASTRA III B Deluxe sextants going on, on ebay right now. They are priced at $425.00. This includeds a Satisfaction on Delivery Guarantee, and a 12 months manufacturer's warranty.

We also have a good inventory of pre-owned C. Plath, Tamaya, and French Poulin sextants right now. Also one Dutch Observator.

Shipping to the UK runs about $70.00 using our Air Parcel Post Service. This includes insurance of $485.00 and packaging.

Please visit our web sites:

Visit our web site at:
http://www.landandseacollection.com/

Visit our Ebay stores at:
http://www.stores.ebay.com/landandseacollection

mymaryb

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