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List Price : $24.99 Price : $19.99
List Price : $24.99 Price : $19.99
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Our most popular plotter! This instrument consists of a plotter mounted on a roller. The plotter contains distance scales at 1:20,000, 1:40,000, and 1:80,000 to fit the N.O.S. Coast and Harbor Charts, as well as an inch scale. Included are a semi-circular
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Weems & Plath Marine Navigation Parallel Plotter Reviews
Weems & Plath Marine Navigation Parallel Plotter Reviews
| 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful  Works exactly as expected, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Weems & Plath Marine Navigation Parallel Plotter (Sports) Never thought using one of these would be a big deal, until I got stationed in Germany. I have always used this product as a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy, and when I got stationed in Germany, found out that the German Navy uses these 2 plastic triangles to do the same thing. Rolling Wheems are much better, and that's why I ordered this product. Nothing like owning yourself what you use every day on a destroyer underway! Parallel Plotter, By Tom Barnacles (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Weems & Plath Marine Navigation Parallel Plotter (Sports) This plotter, I call it a rolling ruler, is the best thing for navigators since the non-slip coffee cup. This is parallel rulers without the annoyance of slowing walking the rulers up and down, back and forth. In addition, you can readily read course/bearing compass degrees from the angular scale on the plotter against any meridian of longitude. You can also read the end scales against any parallel of latitude for courses or bearings. And what is a bonus is the measurement scale at the end of the plotter - it coincides with many latitude scales. I have often used this end scale instead of measuring dividers off the latitude scale. The only disadvantage is (a) after time in a marine environment, the aluminum tracking wheels at either end may slip a bit and not move 100% in parallel, but this is after a long period of time and it is not considered a negative characteristic; and (b) the little rivets connecting the aluminun roller unit to the plastic scale piece, may experience... Read more |
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