Steve C Cronin
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We don't all go buying new compasses every year and this may be my first in 11 years so I havn't been watching "recent market developments" in this area, very closely!
The Suunto 116 on my yacht has developed a bubble from being left uncovered in direct sunlight in an ambient of nearly 40C and it looks on first examination that the seal on the filling screw has disintegrated but knowing my luck, there will probably be a more serious and structural leak elsewhere. Boat laid-up in Corfu, me in UK.
Web seaching seems to reveal that Suunto have left the marine market and now concentrate on the trekking, health and leisure markets only. Neither Ritchie nor Danforth appear to make something which will fit into the same hole so if a replacement is the only alternative, I'm probably stuffed.
Last time I had a leak in a compass was over 30 years ago with a Danforth and it was straightforward to repair. The oil it used was the jet engine lubricant, AeroShell **** (I forget the SAE grade).
Since I've been using the autohelm digital and the COG of the cockpit plotter for the last three months*, I wonder if I really need a magnetic compass at all?
SCC
*- I should point out that the manufacturer's replacement under warranty of the cockpit plotter earlier this summer, although it is physically the same shape, has introduced a significant error on the compass. I cannot understand why this should occur, unless the replacement, a revised model, has more magnetic components than the original
The Suunto 116 on my yacht has developed a bubble from being left uncovered in direct sunlight in an ambient of nearly 40C and it looks on first examination that the seal on the filling screw has disintegrated but knowing my luck, there will probably be a more serious and structural leak elsewhere. Boat laid-up in Corfu, me in UK.
Web seaching seems to reveal that Suunto have left the marine market and now concentrate on the trekking, health and leisure markets only. Neither Ritchie nor Danforth appear to make something which will fit into the same hole so if a replacement is the only alternative, I'm probably stuffed.
Last time I had a leak in a compass was over 30 years ago with a Danforth and it was straightforward to repair. The oil it used was the jet engine lubricant, AeroShell **** (I forget the SAE grade).
Since I've been using the autohelm digital and the COG of the cockpit plotter for the last three months*, I wonder if I really need a magnetic compass at all?
SCC
*- I should point out that the manufacturer's replacement under warranty of the cockpit plotter earlier this summer, although it is physically the same shape, has introduced a significant error on the compass. I cannot understand why this should occur, unless the replacement, a revised model, has more magnetic components than the original
