Date: 12/23/2002, 12:57 pm
Hi there, Grant.
I use the Richie Sailor II.
It's about middlin-priced at about $50, and available in the Seattle area at several kayak outfitting stores. Large, easy to read numbers. Also, with its flat bottom, installation is easier than compasses requiring a deep well. Another feature which comes in handy sometimes is that it snaps off of its base, so you can easily transfer it to another base-equipped boat (bases are about $15) or lock it up in the car for security purposes.
It lacks some features such as internal lighting or the little adjusting magnets used to correct for other boat-mounted metals. It also does not have a sun shield to protect its top. I compensate for that somewhat by recessing the mount enough so that when the boat is set on the ground upside-down it does not rest on the compass.
It does rotate on its bezel, so one can set it for the local magnetic deviation. I find it more convenient though to simply mark that offset with a colored piece of tape. My GPS has a setting that uses magnetic north rather than geographic north, and I use that.
Pete Roszyk,
in Snohomish, WA
Messages In This Thread
- Other: Compass of Choice?
grant -- 12/22/2002, 12:33 pm- Re: Other: Compass of Choice?
Craig Bethune -- 12/24/2002, 8:02 am- Re: Other: Compass of Choice?
Ed Falis -- 12/24/2002, 12:00 am- Re: Other: Compass - how about
Roy Morford -- 12/24/2002, 2:10 am
- Just curious, but why is this feature desirable?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/23/2002, 10:51 pm- Re: Just curious, but why is this feature desirabl
grant -- 12/23/2002, 11:04 pm- Re: Just curious, but why is this feature desirabl
Shawn Baker -- 12/24/2002, 10:46 am- Re: Just curious, but why is this feature desirabl
Rick Allnutt -- 12/24/2002, 6:44 am - Re: Just curious, but why is this feature desirabl
- Re: Just curious, but why is this feature desirabl
- Compass Review in Kayak Touring 2003
grant -- 12/23/2002, 5:10 pm- Rephrasing the Question of Compasses
grant -- 12/23/2002, 11:09 am- re: Compasses *LINK*
John Schroeder -- 12/23/2002, 6:16 pm- Re: Rephrasing the Question of Compasses
Don Lucas -- 12/23/2002, 1:13 pm- Re: Richie Sailor II *LINK* *Pic*
Pete Roszyk -- 12/23/2002, 12:57 pm- Re: Richie Sailor II
grant -- 12/23/2002, 2:33 pm
- Re: Rephrasing the Question of Compasses
- Re: Other: Compass of Choice?
Rick Allnutt -- 12/22/2002, 8:36 pm- I agree "Buy the Book"
Timothy -- 12/23/2002, 10:29 am- Re: Other: Compass of Choice?
grant -- 12/23/2002, 10:27 am - Re: Other: Compass of Choice?
- Re: Other: Compass of Choice?
- Re: Other: Compass of Choice?