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2. Hand compass - Wikipedia

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   Floating-card compass with prismatic sight (bearing 220° through eyepiece). The marine hand compass, or hand bearing compass|hand-bearing compass as it is termed in nautical use, has been used by small-boat or inshore sailors since at least the 1920s to keep a running course or to record precise bearings to landmarks on shore in order to determine position via the resection technique.

3. Silva compass - Wikipedia

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   Silva Sweden AB is an outdoors products company that sells handheld compasses and other navigational equipment including GPS tools, mapping software, aircraft altimeters, and marine navigation tools. Silva's founders - Gunnar Tillander, Alvar Kjellström, Arvid Kjellström, and Björn Kjellström - invented the hugely popular orienteering ...

4. Pelorus (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   In marine navigation, a pelorus is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea. It is a "simplified compass" without a directive element, suitably mounted and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings. [1] The instrument was named for one Pelorus, said to have been the pilot for Hannibal, circa 203 BC.

5. West Marine - Wikipedia

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   West Marine is an American company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which operates a chain of boating supply and fishing retail stores. The company has 247 retail stores in North America. West Marine also runs Blue Future [2] a non profit organization. West Marine's flagship store is in Fort Lauderdale.

6. Digital compass - Wikipedia

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   Digital compass may refer to: Digital magnetic compass , solid-state microelectromechanical system compasses Fibre optic gyrocompass , as in a ship's navigation system

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8. Fibre optic gyrocompass - Wikipedia

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   It is sometimes part of a ship's set of compasses, which also include a conventional gyrocompass and a magnetic compass under SOLAS requirements for the ship to be fitted with compass systems. [2] The compass comprises a fibre optic gyroscope sensor that operates on the principle of the Sagnac effect which links to a computer and then locates ...

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