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At present go to https://sites.google.com/site/compassansar/ for a price indication.
How to select an Ansar compass, prices and specifications
World's Best sail boat tactical compass? Non electronic/GPS - allowed in most racing classes.
Ansar 4 very easy to read, see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5IcsrpYxw or animation below left
Price ideas see https://sites.google.com/site/compassansar/ or ask
Plus taxes for delivery to European Union countries.
Select an Ansar 4, 2, 1 or 3 model and its size (when options are available), in table below, starting from the left.
Select an Ansar 4, 2, 1 or 3 model and its size (when options are available), in table below, starting from the left.
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The Ansar 4 compass is the latest development and the choice if the compass can be read from around the center line of the boat.
Available apparent card diameters: 100, 125 mm.
I recommend a compass based on Silva 1000.
Animation/picture shows compass based on Silva 1000 model.
The Ansar 2 compass is suitable for keelboats and dinghies.
It is designed for viewing from the windward side of the boat, around 30 deg. from the center line.
Available apparent card diameters: 100, 125 mm.
I recommend a compass based on Silva 1000.
Animation/picture shows compass based on Silva 1000 model.
The Ansar 1 compass is an alternative to Ansar 2 and 4, for keelboats and dinghies, if you can't reach the compass to adjust the markers while racing.
Note: It is here shown from the designed viewing position: from the windward side of the boat, around 30 deg. from the center line. The copulas are facing sideways.
The compass shows the same large digit on each track.
It is adjustable for for different angles between tacks, standard 70-90 deg.
Available apparent card diameter: 100 mm.
I recommend a compass based on Silva 100PT, as shown.
Note: The compass needed for converting to this model, transparent on both sides, is not made by Silva at the moment. Ask, and I will ask them if they can make one which I can modify.
It can also be made from a compass with only one transparent side. It is then tilted back and forth for the adjustment for tacking angle.
The Ansar 3 is an alternative to Ansar 2 and 4 if you can't reach the compass to adjust the markers while racing.
Its your choice if you want the wind direction displayed with the customary 0-360 deg. dial.
It is designed for viewing from the windward side of the boat, around 30 deg. from the center line.
Only Silva 100 compasses are modified.
Picture shows what I recommend, a compass based on Silva model 100P.
Notes Ansar 2 and 4 compasses
Notes Ansar 2 and 4 compasses
The movable markers of the Ansar 4 compass is now made circular instead of square as shown in pictures.
I now make the vertical pointers of the 100 and 1000 compasses some 3.5 mm wide, slightly narrower than shown in some of the pictures.
The color of the red and green markers of some compass pictures are enhanced. On the real compass they are duller.
The color of the "best lift" and "worst header" markers may vary, yellow, sharp red.
When reading a compass course the compass must be read straight from behind to minimize parallax error. This is because the modification requires the lubber line to be placed some distance from the compass card.
If you need a compass for accurate navigation it is strongly suggested you have a separate compass for this purpose.
(Compasses must be placed at least one meter apart to avoid interference.)
Prices and specifications subject to change without notice.
You race to win! It becomes easier with an ANSAR Compass!
You race to win! It becomes easier with an ANSAR Compass!
The world's fastest skate sail, 120 km/h (75 MPH) is another of my top performance designs. https://sites.google.com/site/icewinghomepage/
Things from my desk. Sailing boats I have raced and sailed. My humble abode.
100 MPH?, 160 km/h? My design High Speed Wing Skate Sail. Sailor in wing The only one in the world, as far as I know.
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.
My Four Record Speed sailing projects
Some 100 have been built world wide. I have designed, built and raced some twenty of these wings.
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.
Karlberg Palace.
Freelance photography and writing. E.g. my E-Book: 100 steps to Ultra Light Luggage and Less Heat StressPhoto: No-Bag-Travel. All in the pockets for weeks! After decades of traveling light on the world's hot roads in sixty countries, several circumnavigations, minimizing, testing and eliminating gear - finding ways to manage without, I have writen the above E-Book.
(My note: Latest version of this table is here on IW page, 9 Jan 2018)
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