Unless you either work or play on boats, you can be forgiven for never having heard of Captain’s Nautical Supplies. For more than a century, the Seattle-based retailer of sea charts, marine ...

In his cluttered Charles Village workshop filled with nautical and optical instruments, Frank Joseph Janicek carefully repaired ships’ chronometers, compasses and sextants, and also precision ...

Field Trip: Nautical Instruments, from ROADSHOW's 2012 visit to Corpus Christi, Texas. Appraiser Jonathan Snellenberg explores nautical instruments with ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark L. Walberg in ...

Question 1. What is a 'Mason's hygrometer' and what is it used for? Answer: It is the name given to dry and wet bulb thermometers, usually contained in the Stevenson's screen often found on the ship's ...

nautical instruments: chronometers ; compasses ; binnacles ; peloruses ; sextants ; marine glasses ; marine telescopes ; barometers ; yacht logs ; clinometers ; wheel ...