Brand: Marine Chandlery

Product Code: UM-181010

Special Offer Price: £197.27

Retail Price: £218.53

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Large, easily adjusted mirrors using new instrument-quality glass and a special baked on salt spray resistant backing. Mirrors have protective housing. Horizontal mirror is half silvered. No adjustment wrenches required.

•  Moulded from high impact, weather resistant plastic.
•  7" (178mm) frame radius
•  Graduation from 120 degrees to -5 degrees
•  Index mirror rectangular, 1.98" x 1.49" (50x 38 mm)
•  Precision machined slow gravel gear and worm mechanism
•  Highly visible, easy to read micrometer drum and vernier allowing readings to 2/10 minute if arc.
•  Fully ribbed, three circle sextant body for platform strength and stability
•  Large, contoured handle designed for steady grip and angled back for added control
•  Seven large sunshades allow complete, independent adjustments of shading density for horizon and index mirrors
•  3 x 27 mm star telescope with anti-reflective coated glass lenses, plus separate hooded sight tube for glare free sun shots
•  Neck lanyard frees hand and protects sextant
•  tough, fully padded, shock-resisting carrying case with compartments for extra batteries and mirror kits.

An excellent tool for beginners and serious navigators as a back-up to GPS. Using this model myself as a novice, I was able to plot a fix within 6 miles of our GPS position. (In the South China Sea)