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A French company has invented an electronic sextant and named it G-Stell.

Here's a link to it.

G-Stell electronic sextant

I found it while looking at links related to an upcoming boat show in France (Cannes?).  However, I have not seen that there is actual production of the G-Stell or price and availability.

It looks very promising.

CelNav57

It does look interesting. Sadly, like a GPS it takes all of the work and thus, all of the fun out of it. :)

BigBill,

"Point and shoot" stuff sounds easy to use, and probably is, but sailing at 5 knots it doesn't matter much how fast I get an LOP. The reduction using paper is easy, fun and the only electronics that'll fail would be the battery in my watch.

Great idea though.

Roland

It probably wont work too well if the batteries die. Maybe there are backup instructions included on how to use a sextant?

It would be curious to try it out.

Lou