If you are in a life raft this is not much help as you have little influence over its direction or speed. If you are in a seagoing boat the binacle compass has a spike to use the sun's shadow to calibrate the compass, even if the compass error is huge. If you don't know how to look up the sun's azimuth you probably need to take or revise some courses before putting to sea.. If its just that the compass was smashed by the boom, and you don't have a back up (mostly we have electronic compasses too but not in GGR) use the hand bearing compass to steer.

Taught this in the Scouts more years ago than I care to remember

One of my favorite nav tricks - the Orion North Arrow!

Très utile

Get a 24h pilot watch!! Even easier!

Vicki Mackay teach this to Carl Mackay please

The list of jobs is getting shorter for the first time since entering the GGR22. But the mast work is so important. It keeps me awake at night.

Fabulous and what a match...

Great game and sportsmanship!

I like the ‘under warranty’ bit!

Tempus fugit, 1 second at a time 🤣🤣

Very good stuff, I had it for 10 years. But you still need to clean the bottom. Just by diving and scratching with a stainless steel plate..

No Goose barnacles for you this time around hopefully.

We all want to know how it performs for real . It looks good though

Looks great. But not for aluminum boats, I assume.

cool Capt this going to be very ineresting for many people , spécially that i wanted to do the same , let see how it work , you will go fast , super

🤣 Brilliant. You still need to finish your tour of the East coast of South Africa.

Easier to dive/scrub - hopefully will be permitted in the mid-voyage stop, because no toxic bottom paint being scrubbed off along with regular weed and barnacles.

Looks like chocolate. Makes it a coconut-rough.

Coppercoat Yes ! the work of course nwell done

Espectacular acabado !!!

Faudra voir au retour aprés 20 000 miles...

You doing this, Pat Lawless? My boat came with, lasted 12 years, put on 6 coats fresh 2 years ago. Durable & works.

Tanguy Ales

Nice smooth application

Very nice. It will soon turn green once it’s in the water ☺️

My steel boat came with Coppercoat. Lasted 12 years. Then I cleaned & lightly sanded it, and applied another 6 layers of Coppercoat. Very little scraping in the first 5 years, just thin slime. Then a few barnacles in the last years, increasing in number, just scrape off with a flatedge hoe. It is so nice to not have to deal with the annual crap of conventional antifoulings.

Applying it isn’t even half the work. Now you have to sand it. It works great, though.

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She’s beautiful!

How did you deal with galvanic corrosion between the coppercoat and your bronze thruhulls/pintles?

What percentage copper??

Gorgeous!!!

All the best and may you have fair winds all the way round.

That’s going to feel very hot in the equatorial zones!

Rose avec des étoiles vertes, comme dans le films L'homme de Rio !!! 😉