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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Donn Denman
Date: 2024 Oct 8, 04:11 -0700
I'm thinking of this as emergency gear, but it could also play roll as a museum piece that's part of my classic old boat.
A plastic one could just live in the ditch bag, and I would use it in the case of being struck by lightning or losing GPS due to regional conflict. I plan to spend a lot of time in the coral triangle, and the Philippines could be the site of enough conflict where GPS is somehow suppressed.
If I could get a bronze one, it could happily live on the wall next to my bronze oil lamp, and wouldn't take up any real space, and would be easy to grab along with the ditch bag in an emergency. I have bronze portlights, and various trim on the boat, so something that looks old and useful has appeal.
I don't think I would want to spend more than $100 on the plastic one, but a few hundred for the bronze piece seems worth it.
