Traverse Board

[William Brand]

This is still a work in progress, but I'm delighted to say that it was the most asked about object in my display at the last event, so I can't recommend making one enough. Almost everyone who came by asked what it was and enjoyed an explanation of it. It's also easy to tailor make one of these to the needs of one crew or another and paint it with a color scheme that suits your own tastes. This is the first of two traverse boards that I'm working on.

[Cascabel]

........O.K., I give up !!! What is it, some sort of a game board or something ???

[William Brand]

It's a navigational tool for deriving your position from a fixed point. Think of it as an inertial positioning device for dead reckoning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse_board

[Captain Jim]

Beautiful, simply beautiful. Is it lazer cut or have you mad carving skills, too?

[William Brand]

This was the first one, so I laser cut the holes to see how accurate such a process would be. I plan to paint this one after a little hand carving. The second one is all hand cut, drilled and carved.

[LadyBarbossa]

Will... I AM JEALOUS!!!

This is one of many items that is on my list of "must haves"!

~Lady B