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title: "How to Use Plastic Sextants: With Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting Kindle Edition"
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# How to Use Plastic Sextants: With Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting Kindle Edition

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- **What is this?** How to Use Plastic Sextants: With Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting Kindle Edition by david burchtobias burch
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## Customer Reviews

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    Plastic Sextants
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2020*

Absolutely marvelous how-to treatise about using plastic sextants by master navigator David Burch. I wanted so badly to learn how to use a sextant at age 68 without spending $thousands on the subject. After extensive research on the available toys, I found a new Davis Mark III plastic sextant for $50. Using only the instructions that came with the instrument, I learned how to precisely find my location using the Mark III sextant and plotting spreadsheet from Bill Ritchie. I really wanted better resolution; so, more research and found a Davis Mark 15 for $40 on eBay in perfect condition. This time, I wanted to know more about using my plastic sextants and found a monograph by David Burch named "How to Use Plastic Sextants".  What an I opener. After absorbing all I could, I wanted even more info and found the 2nd Edition of "Emergency Navigation" by David Burch and also bought Sight Reduction Tables for my latitude on the planet. Never knew there were so many constellations and star clusters to locate the North Star. I am thrilled to feed my hobby interest with knowledge from David Burch using his books and Bill Ritchie's practical plotting spreadsheets. I've learned the Davis Mark III and Mark 15 sextants are remarkable backup instruments, but they work just as well as two thousand dollar instruments when you get to know them. I assiduously recommend David Burch's treatise about "How To Use Plastic Sextants" and his Starpath School of Navigation, and his compendium of navigation books.

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    another in the series of great books by David Burch
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2015*

another in the series of great books by David Burch ... in this book he covers basic care and calibration of the sextant, discusses the pros and cons of plastic sextants vs metal sextants, where and when and in what applications and situations a plastic sextant might be just as useful or perhaps more useful as a metal sextant ... and despite the name of the book, this book is also a very good general introduction of metal sextants as well ... Burch then goes into the details of not only celestial navigation, but piloting techniques using the sextant to augment or even replace the magnetic compass ... he even introduces and discusses the topic of using the sextant with Stark tables to clear lunar distances, a topic I don't believe he discusses elsewhere in his books on Celestial Navigation ... I would definitely recommend this book to anyone as a cotinuation of his series on inland and coastal navigation (with the separate workbook), celestial navigation, the use of the starfinder, and marine weather forecasting (with the separate workbook) ... even without the separate workbooks, however, each text contains numberous fully worked out and explained problems and many other practice problems for the student of each topic ... David Burch is my go to authority on any topic related to marine navigation ... I have never been disappointed in any of his excellent books.

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    Best book on using any sextant, not just plastic.
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2021*

Gets you using your sextant right away. It’s comparisons between sextants (with data) shows real life readings for each kind. Most authoritative book I have read on the subject, and I have read 5 or 6 different books on the subject of sextants currently in circulation.

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