This has been in storage for around 10 years and discovered. Still in the original box unused.
Richie Helmsman HB-741 Bracket mount. 3/34".
Current selling price runs between $240 and $310. Insane. It may have been $27.99 10 years ago. (he joked)
Let me know if you are interested and your offer. The point is to get something good for you and not at a price that means anything special to me. We'll see what postage cost and work that out.
I will be in Holland with our good friends of 50 years for two weeks. We are both gone from our sailboats but not away from water and seeing the new to historic ones there, as we always do.
Best way to me out of the USofA is NLaskay at DLS dot com.
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Ahem, we were younger. And IJsselmer very old. Two thousand years ago Lacus Flevo per the Romans. 13th century Zuiderzee. Then 1932 IJsselmer commonly called but our area the most southern is Markermeer. And we still see boats of all sizes still being sailed, a few ages still to close to 200 years old.
Norm, Oh, SURE!! :P
Wait until a guy cuts up a buncha Okoume Plywood, ???
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Epoxies the bejesus out of it,
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Glues it all together,
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Makes a face plate,
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Discovers it's too wide, :o
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Has to cut off one side of it and make a new side piece, :'(
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Then glue THAT together,
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PLUS mounting blocks,
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Then over drill for filling with epoxy and tap mounting holes in it,
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Get it all put together,
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Then, EXACTLY one week after he glues the box to the bulkhead, ::)
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NOW you find a compass, that he could have installed with just a coupla screws?!?!?
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>:( ARGGGGHHH!!!! >:(
Oh, well.
Guess it's to be expected, from someone who has spent his entire life, damn'ed by the gods. :'(
Thanks, anyway! ;D
Charles Brennan
I did love the compass on the Nimble that was through the cockpit bulkhead. Rarely needed but seeing the direction also from inside the cabin was useful.
After the Captains (me) gift to the crew (me) a reading of the compass after the grog(s) would offer the half cable route from the dock to my home.
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