THE COMPASS that COULD tell A STORY.

PHOTO (COLOR): Decades before GPS, Andy Wall and his shipmates navigated the Pacific by sextant (top), and by Carronade's Sestrel compass (above). Andy had become pretty proficient in his celestial navigation, but it was that plane and that little compass that got them safely to their first landfall. When Andy and I arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Billy Nance (the brother of Andy's crew Bob Nance) was standing on our dock waiting to take our lines. [Extracted from the article]

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