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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Apr 1, 09:46 -0700
Francis
Glad we share an appreciation of my pelorus as a thing of beauty! So far I have not been tempted to expose it to the rigours of life in the boat cockpit, so it stays at home on the nostalgia shelf with my C Plath sextant. However, I have salvaged the base bowl from a Suunto K-12 compass, damaged in heavy weather. The capsule was cracked but the gimballed bowl is OK. The diameter of the bowl rim is 100mm, exactly the same as a Helix HO3 circular protractor. So, with a white perspex disc under the protractor, a shadow pin and a few other bits and pieces, I should be geared up for useful sun azimuths.
I have ordered Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings for further inspiration.
Incidentally, I have long been a fan of RAM mounts, which make for secure and flexible mounting of almost anything in a boat. Pics attached.
Regards
John
