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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1. Codice articolo G0913179094I5N01
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1. Codice articolo G0913179094I5N00
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: 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. Codice articolo 000741
Descrizione libro Paper Covered Boards. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. Bauer, Nancy McCoy (illustratore). 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. Codice articolo 008078