>Price, specifications, how to select >There is plenty to gain from wind shifts >You need a compass! Benefits of Ansar compass no:  >2 and 4 The best! >2 with the cupola upwards. >1 >3 Set up and read: >Ansar 4. Simplest! >Ansar 2 >Automatic compensation for tacking angle, Ansar 4  >A comparison with electronic compasses >How to pay, prepayment only! >Warranty. >How to mount the compass >Background of compasses >The modification takes time >Compass manufacturer Silva's site >Small scale local distributors wanted! >Back to the compass home page   Email with comments, suggestions, questions or just to say hello. Note line below! At home or traveling? Sometimes I travel for weeks and can't always respond to email. Postal address & Telephone number. Modified July 2001. Counter: . My home page magazine articles, lectures.  The world's fastest skate sail, 120 km/h (75 MPH) is another of my top performance designs.  Copyright © 1996-2001 Anders Ansar. Permission is granted for reproduction provided that the whole document remains intact.

The most popular model of the Ansar 2 compass is the type with rear facing cupola. I have also made Ansar 2 compasses with the cupola facing upwards.  An advantage of this orientation is that the angles for viewing the compass can be chosen freely, for example around 60 or 80 degrees from the boats center line, suitable for example for a  catamaran with a compass mounted at the mast. Or a dinghy with the compass mounted just a bit forward of the viewer, instead of well forward in the boat.  But I am not totally happy with these compasses because I have difficulties to make good movable markers for this model.