Saturday, March 5, 2016

Bass-ackwards binnacle

Garth Griffiths.  Boating in Canada.  Practical Piloting and Seamanship.  Second Edition.  University of Toronto Press, 1966.

Actually, they're more usually referred to as "Kelvin's balls" in the U.K., and contain magnets to counteract the effect of the ship's magnetic field on the compass.

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