The mounting holes look like they'd fit directly into some kind of quick-release fittings, don't they?most people made up a plywood or aluminium plate to screw/bolt their compass to, which fitted over the cunningham eye and cunningham cleat and was held in by the cunningham rope and then the compass could be removed from the boat when not in use.
Checked that and it's still fine with the current rules. And simple and pretty smart really. Why wasn't this sort of thing used ever again?The heading recorder is just a 3 digit scroller which I think would be out of class rules now
Thanks so much for this info Horizon, perhaps I'll just get it on the water thenThese compasses were supplied as standard on the boats provided for the 1980 laser Worlds In Kingston, Canada (with 350 competitors!).
I think the compasses for those Worlds were actually screwed into the decks .
But most people made up a plywood or aluminium plate to screw/bolt their compass to, which fitted over the cunningham eye and cunningham cleat and was held in by the cunningham rope and then the compass could be removed from the boat when not in use.
i don't think these compasses are that rare. They come up on Ebay occasionally. I bought one from there a few years back for only £13.00 and I so don't think they have much rarity/"collectability" value.
The photos are from the 1980 Worlds.
Mmm... ok, if you point head-to-wind, read the compass, and then click that number on the "recorder", you are technically storing and displaying the wind direction... But I still think it's a stretch to call that a rule breach. I believe the current rule was written specifically with electronic devices in mind.i thought it would fall foul of 22.4 - A compass or timing device must not be capable of displaying, delivering, transmitting,
receiving, calculating, correlating or storing information about wind speed, wind direction, boat
speed or boat position.
What's the (outer) diameter of the tunnel? If that's less than the distance between the control lines (45 mm maybe), then there's no point in touching it. Less work as well. (Looks like it's a structural element, too.)as for the tunnel, i was just going to cut it wider with a junior hacksaw or something.
Mmm... ok, if you point head-to-wind, read the compass, and then click that number on the "recorder", you are technically storing and displaying the wind direction... But I still think it's a stretch to call that a rule breach. I believe the current rule was written specifically with electronic devices in mind.
What's the (outer) diameter of the tunnel? If that's less than the distance between the control lines (45 mm maybe), then there's no point in touching it. Less work as well. (Looks like it's a structural element, too.)
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