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Ansar 2 and 4 Compasses, benefits, many unique, not found even in electronic compasses

Ansar 2 and 4 tactical compasses for sail boats

Look! Unbeatable intuitive lift/header information at a glance!

Setting up according to the wind shifts is done directly on the compass.

Electronic compasses on the contrary requires you to take notes for: 1. The set up and 2. To detect a larger than before lift on one tack (may signal a changing mean wind direction).

Further their manual requires you to sail through lifts and headers before the race for the set up. If you arrive late at the course you can't set it up.... They don't tell you how to reset the compass if the mean wind direction changes during the race.

Ansar 2 and 4 benefits, many unique, and not found even in electronic compasses

- - Reading the compass

- Lift or header? Information at a glance! See animation at left.

You can easily judge the relative size of the lift or header. Unique!
- Signals if the lift gets better: Pointer goes under yellow marker. May mean that the mean wind direction is changing. Not to be missed! Unique! See: Setting up and reading Ansar 2 and Setting up and reading Ansar 4.
- Easy to Read even at a distance. Large and clear display.
- Easy to read even in rough seas. Compass card is about twice as well damped against rocking as on the unmodified compass.
  - Initial set up and readjusting
The compass is set up according to the wind shifts and readjusted if necessary while racing simply by moving the markers. No need to take notes or make calculations. Unique!
See Setting up and reading Ansar 2 and Setting up and reading Ansar 4.
- - Miscellaneous
- You can easily adapt the Ansar 2 and 4 compasses to the tacking angle of your boat.
On the Ansar 2 compass you replace the red marker with one with another length (material supplied with compass). It is made with a length estimated to be suitable for your boat at delivery.
On the Ansar 4 compass you change the height of the markers. At delivery they are set to suit your boat.
- The Ansar 4 compass has Automatic compensation , in keelboats, for the decrease in angle between tacks as the wind increases from light to moderate. Unique!
- Non electronic. Allowed in most racing classes. Does not stop to function because of lack of electrical power or water getting into compass.
- Note that the external makers not always end up centralized on the compass cupola, they may be offset by some 30 degrees because of the distance between the pointers on the compass card.
- Tactical decisions becomes easier and you can keep your eyes more on the race.

Ansar 4 compass

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Ansar 2 compass

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The world's fastest skate sail, 120 km/h (75 MPH) is another of my top performance designs.

Unbeatable lift/header information at a glance!

Look above! The Pointer between the markers moves sideways when the boat changes course. In these animations (starboard tack) you see the meaning of the pointer positions with respect to the colored markers.

The pointers are mounted on the edge of the compass card, and moves with the card.

The colored markers are movable and mounted on the outside of the compass.

Here the Ansar 2 Compass is rigged with a "Long Red Marker" making it suitable for reading from windward and around 35 degrees, the sector is from 20 to 50 degrees, from the center line of the boat.* Here viewed from windward on starboard tack.

If the Ansar 2 Compass is rigged with a "Short Red Maker" it is suitable for reading within some 20 degrees from the boat's center line, that is a 40 degrees sector.*

*At larger angles the markers you are using may be too far to leeward on the cupola to be good references for the pointer. If you are willing to move your head inbord the viewing angle becomes larger.

Ansar 2 compass. Modified Silva 1000

Here shown like you see it from windward when sailing on port tack. Apparent card diameter 100 mm.

Silva models I modify to Ansar 2 and 4:

100P, 103P, 103PE, 1000

125B/H

Some other models can be modified, ask if you have some special requirements.

No figures to read, write, note, calculate or remember - it can't get simpler!

You race to win! It becomes easier with an ANSAR Compass!

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75 MPH, 120 km/h. My design Course Racing Wing Skate Sail

I think I was first to show that skate sailing in wings is much faster that its predecessor with the sailor standing to leeward of a fabric sail. Top speed is some 75 MPH, 120 km/h. That is 30% faster than its predecessor.

Photo:The wing hangs on the shoulders and I wear ice skates.

It sails 4 times faster than the wind.

Boats that I have sailed and raced A C-class sailing canoe (local Swedish design). An Elvström Trapetz two man dinghy. A Star Boat. Two Tornado Catamarans, once an Olympic class. Two Laser dinghies.When I sold my first Tactical Compass, Ansar 1, to sailors I was engaged as a tactician on a 6 m R-yacht and a very successful Scampi Half Ton Class, Lady Luck.

Photo. Camping trip in a Laser Dinghy This was on large Lake Saimaa in Finland for half a month with a friend in his dinghy.

This is a small area wing sail and should therefore be able to reach higher speeds before you are over powered.

With this wing over powering should come around 100 mph, 160 km/h.

Wing still in modification and testing phase - and right high speed conditions are very rare - about once a year.

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Some 100 have been built world wide. I have designed, built and raced some twenty of these wings.

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Small boat sailing to Iceland on the cold northern Atlantic OceanSailed with a friend, Lennart Berglund, in his 28 ft boat. A very rewarding three months trip: From Stockholm, east coast Sweden, Kiel Canal in Germany, west of England, Scotland, Faeroe Islands, Iceland, (from there by airplane to Greenland, Kulusuk), Shetland Islands, Norway, Goeta Canal from west to east through Sweden, Stockholm.

At night 39 F, 4 C, approaching Iceland.

On the west coast of England we got a Gale Warning. As the nearest port we had a chart for was Liverpool we headed there. (As charts were expensive then, USD20, we only had a few). We got in before the storm hit....

The view from my humble abode in central Stockholm, Sweden. Beyond the water, a bay, lies the Karlberg Palace.

The bay is connected to the oceans. There is a public jetty just outside my abode so you can arrive by boat for a visit.

The castle dates back to the end of 1640.

My Tactical Compasses for Sail Racing.Wind shifts At-A-GlanceAnimation: The position of the central pointer gives you the wind shift information At-A-Glance! Wind is here from the right.

"It helped me to gain at least three or four places in each major regatta", writes Ed Baird, about the Ansar 1 compass.

Other famous buyers are Iain Murray, Australia, Peter Norlin, Sweden.

My Tactical compasses

Karlberg Palace.

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