Thursday 10 March 2011

Compass swinging

Swinging a compass normally requires a known heading and steering the boat on that,to see what the ships main compass tells you,then either adjust it or make a note of the heading for navigational works and adjustment on your paper chart work.


In our case this was not done in that method,we had an electronic compass that needed a 360 turn,it will then program its memory and know its headings,check the two circles on the plotter (enlarge with a left click on the picture)


Crew member Hamish gets some hands on compass instruction from his grandad Notty.

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