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- PublisherAzimuth Press
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0913179094
- ISBN 13 9780913179093
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages191
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The sextant handbook: Adjustment, repair, use, and history
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1. Seller Inventory # G0913179094I5N01
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Loran and GPS notwithstanding, there will always be a place for the sextant aboard any blue-water boat, if for no other reason than the thrill and mystery of finding one's position on earth by gazing at the heavens. Here is the indispensable reference that should accompany the instrument 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 book is designed to make beginner and expert alike conversant with this most beautiful and functional of the navigator's tools. Put in the simplest terms, The Sextant Handbook is not a book on how to navigate, but rather a book on how to make a sextant Topics include: Assembly and Disassembly Vital Adjustments Avoiding Problems Rough Weather Sightings Oiling and Cleaning Immersion Baths Emergency Silvering Finding and Buying Used Sextants And Much More You'll also find a list of distributors, manufacturers, and dealers worldwide, a discussion of future trends, and numerous helpful hints, including sighting with eyeglasses and using a Rude starfinder. Seller Inventory # 000741
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The Sextant Handbook; Adjustment, Repair, Use and History
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Azimuth Pres, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland
(1986)
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ISBN 13: 9780913179093
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Book Description Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Bauer, Nancy McCoy (illustrator). First Edition. Tall octavo with navy blue boards and white printing on the spine. First edition in very good plus condition with one shallow scratch/dent on the front cover and lightly touched bottom front corner. The dust jacket has a scratch reflected by the cover dent, otherwise fine. A very readable detailed technical manual with a wealth of information about the sextant. A valuable mariner's resource. 189 pp., Technical, Navigation, Marine, Nautical, Boating, Education, Sextants, Nonfiction, Instruction, Hobbies, Sports. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 008078
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