Jim, I bought a Nexus 70 UNE (made by Silva) handbearing/steering compass. It is lighted (red light) by built in batteries and can be mounted vertically or horizontally (even upside down) by a small bracket. I attached the bracket a small block of teak, and then connected that block to an identical block with SS bolts, using wing nuts on the ends of the bolts opposite the heads. I can mount the contraption to the top of the lower hatch board or the vertical section of the companionway slide of my new little M15 ("Spirit") by sandwiching either the hatch board or the slide with the teak blocks and tightening up on the wing nuts to keep it all in place. For use as a bearings compass, you just pull the compass itself out of its little bracket. Ron Casino --- Jim Sadler <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> wrote:
What are you skippers using for a compass? Are you mounting it flush next to the companion way? How is it illuminated? Thanks Captain Jim Sadler Skipper Sailing vessel Pelican M-15
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