Tania Aebi
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Tania Aebi is an American sailor. She completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe in a 26-foot sailboat between the ages of 18 and 21, finishing it in 1987, making her the first American woman and
Aebi sailed a Taylor 26 when she became the youngest woman to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe.
Sextant
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A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument that measures the angular distance between two visible objects. Its primary use is to measure the angle between an astronomical object and the ho
Tania Aebi
…She was eighteen years old when she departed. Aebi did not have a GPS receiver because civilian GPS receivers were unavailable. Instead, Aebi had a sextant for celestial navigation and a radio direction finder. She used the first leg of her trip from New Jersey to Bermuda as a sea trial of her boat. Hearing…
A sextant
Sextants can also be used by navigators to measure horizontal angles between objects.