Pictured is a great value and handy multi tool for use aboard a small craft and is well suited for ground tackle and rigging tasks. This particular tool has been modified to make it airport friendly by removing the knife blade.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Multifunction-Outdoor-Pocket-Metal-Tool-Knife-Pliers-Spanner-Wrench-Screwdriver/192081444256?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Monday, December 11, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017
ASA Douglas Style Plotter
The ASA Douglas style 5" by 5" compact plotter is perfect for small craft chart tables. Customize with 1.5mm drilled holes in the center and at the upper scale. This will enable DR and celestial navigation plotting without the need for dividers. Includes reciprocal courses around the perimeter compass rose.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/International-Square-Aviation-Plotter-by-ASA-ASA-CP-P5/221915409138?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D41376%26meid%3Dfd94b43f76364a768e85b2c413b65a27%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D370550875543&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Otis King Calculator for Celestial Navigation
The Otis King is a basic non electronic calculator with four place precision and is good enough to perform law of cosine sight reduction to 1' for celestial navigation and great circle sailing purposes. Easy to learn multiplication and division routines. Find for reasonable cost on Ebay.
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Otis-King-Sight-Reduction-Rudzinski-oct-2017-g40309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJtK-AVkmA&t=54s
Saturday, July 8, 2017
ADDIATOR
The Addiator is a very clever non electronic pocket summing tool. Works well for running totals or adding a series of leg distances. Ebay has many listings at reasonable cost.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Rate Adjusting a Mechanical Watch
Affordable quality mechanical watch movements such as ETA, Seiko, Miyota, and Orient can be rate adjusted to better than 5 seconds per day using a free program called Audacity. There is a learning curve to it. The how to YouTube videos are helpful. See links.
An excellent affordable mechanical watch suitable for underway celestial navigation is the Orient Ray II divers model which hacks and hand winds.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Compact Ex-Meridian Tables
Here is a link to a useful Bowditch style compact ex-meridian table PDF designed primarily for Sun observations.
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Compact-ExMeridian-Table-PDF-Rudzinski-jan-2017-g37815
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Compact-ExMeridian-Table-PDF-Rudzinski-jan-2017-g37815
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