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    Posted: 25 May 2021 at 5:46pm
Wow, what a nice find indeed, as someone who loves watches (but no collection) that is one nice find. I would suggest taking it to a specialist to have it cleaned and examined to prevent any accidental damage. I love the case as well.

As for apologizing for using a nautical term, I hope no one "loses the bubble" over it. I never served on a sub, the origin of the saying (but have had to stumble on and off 2 frigates and 1 destroyer in my career in the RCAF) and love the saying.

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Yessir Andy, I'm trying to find a local clock shop who might be capable of cleaning her up. I spoke with the Captain on the ship (Mobile Super Tanker) from which it came. He was amazed it still ticked. It was a retirement gift. In the day, they never started them. Only took them to shore to be calibrated and cleaned. They were wound twice a day - seven turns. You would get in BIG trouble if you didn't wind the clock! 

You should see the sextant that goes with it. Such a lost art/science. Yes, there was a time not long ago that giant tankers navigated the oceans with stars and a clock!

Sorry to derail the thread. Just got a little excited with the find.

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I feel the same excitement seeing a nice timepiece like that.

It reminded me right away of several pieces I brought home from Afghanistan...All from early in the 20th century when Great Britain (I would guess) was doing a lot of looking around and surveying in the area. A collapsing spy glass bound in leather and the leather end caps, a beautiful sextant in its engraved manufacturer glass top case as well as a matching compass...also in its little wood and glass topped case.

One of the screw adjustments on the sextant is bent but that is okay as I have them displayed as conversation pieces. I look at them and wonder as to their history.

Thanks for sharing the photo of the watch Fred, and the thread was already running amok with our chatter on availability of everything (lack) and wood prices. ;-)


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This was just a such a major flashback, in a different way, than it was for you Andy.

For a few years in the 80's I delivered/captained yachts up and down the coast, the Bahamas and the GOM. I was never good at celestial. Maybe a noon shot or full moon. I would rely on dead reckoning for the most, which I was very good at, LORAN which was sketchy or RDF which a cheap AM radio worked pretty well. We didn't have GPS and SAT nav was scarce.

The (usually) most accurate navigation was freighter fixes. We would see a super tanker or other ship on the horizon. Ask them where they were ( position fix ) and there ya go! Kinda like hitch hiking on the high seas! I was doing that in my twenties and early thirties so you can understand. LOL.

I should stop now..

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It flashed me back to my days working on C130's as well...I worked on them (and a couple other types at the same time)...they used to train new Air Force navigators how to navigate in C130's and that included special sextants that could work through the overhead cockpit access hatch that had a special attachment for it while in flight.

That is a good skill to have if all goes South and all our fancy electronics are suddenly unavailable. Also still handy to know when flying in the far north but maybe that is all fixed up now with satellites and GPS coverage.

The pilots could hear the baby navs struggling and would try to help out on the intercom saying things to the effect of,,,"I have never seen Churchill from this angle before ...".

Ahhh, funny stuff eh?'

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Bad enough trying to take a sight on a rolling boat. Can't imaging trying to get a fix in a bouncing plane! You're right, celestial nav is a fabulous and still useful skill! 

Ya know, one thing that has stuck with me through all my years of being without "position fixes" is a sense of where I am. Dead reckoning. You get a feel of wind and wave and current and and sometimes temperature and how fast you are moving. You know where the sun is and where it is moving.  You plot your position every hour or few based on that. Sometimes you just do it it your head. Can be surprisingly accurate. It's not rocket science. Been done for centuries.

Maybe it's just the folks I travel with, but I'm really surprised how people around me have such a bad sense of position/direction - even when the sun is shining in her their face! LOL

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I say nothing...as that can get me in trouble!
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Before we get in trouble and bringing this back on track..

I ordered the MicroAir EasyStart 364 for my 178 to go with my new Honda EU2200i. I understand I may have not needed to, but seems like a good thing. I'm sure you folks will tell me if I did right and help me get it wired up right. I didn't order the "connection kit". I got boxes of connectors and crimpers that should work, right?

Hey, so who has gone with an extended tank option with their Honda?

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Here is the link to a video showing the install. I saved it for myself as I bought an EasyStart for our trailer as well...for when it finally arrives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soP0uZFd0nQ&feature=emb_rel_end

And a 2nd link that connects to the easy start knowledge bank!

A good start and of course, we can come back here if and when required.

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Oops, here is the 2nd link...darn phat thumbs and hockey playoffs don't mix!

http://www.micro-air.com/kb-easystart/cat_installation.cfm
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