The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, use and History [Audiobook] download free by Bruce A. Bauer
- Listen audiobook: The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, use and History
- Author: Bruce A. Bauer
- Release date: 1995/6/14
- Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MARINE PUBLISHING CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780070052192
- Rating: 8.21 of 10
- Votes: 836
- Review by: Kehlani Gaston
- Review rating: 8.07 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/20
- Duration: 2H21M37S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA Lossless, MP3, ATRAC, MP4, FLAC, WAV, WMA (compression TBZ2, ARJ, RAR, TAR.LZO, ZIP, TZ)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M33S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. 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. All in a thoroughly revised edition of a book acclaimed by navigation professionals.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Ships & Shipping, Astronomical Observation: Observatories, Equipment & Methods, Boating, Sailing, Popular Astronomy & Space, Navigation & Seamanship
- Download servers: Seafile, 4Shared, Torrent, Uploaded, Google Drive, FreakShare, Hightail, Torrent Project, BitShare. Compressed in TBZ2, ARJ, RAR, TAR.LZO, ZIP, TZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.56 USD
- Dimensions: 157x233x15mm
- Weight: 279g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Rockport, ME, United States
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