re: Sextant

It sounds like you have had some wonderful sailing adventures Madts and I like the idea that the sextant is a hand tool rather than a digital instrument. Modern technology is making everything safer these days, but maybe reducing the romance and adventure that comes with risk taking. We still used only sextants when I was in the Navy (not me personally). I loved being at sea, but that was on a freight ship not a cork bobbing in the middle of the pacific. I would like to think that I would have enjoyed sailing, but I never took it up as my wife isn’t comfortable being at sea. I did spend a short time on a friends inflatable sail dinghy in about 4 ft. of water in the North Sea. Pretty rough going but I survived it!