Amesbury: Amesbury High School students Kayla Clark, left, and MacKenzie Richard, both 17, use sextants to measure objects around the Merrimack River at Lowell's Boat Shop in Amesbury. The advanced math class took the field trip to the boat shop using the sextants to calculate the height and distances of the objects. Bryan Eaton/Staff Photo

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