Electronic Sextant G-Stell

[CelNav57]

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

[BigBill]

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

[Rdutton]

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

[LouisC]

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