Sestral Moore Compass advice please

[John B]

Re: Sestral Moore Compass advice please

Swap ya...
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But I'm keeping the Vava'u god, the laughing polar bear cap and the copper wire from Minerva reef...

[Bernadette]

Re: Sestral Moore Compass advice please

nah John, I reckon it would be an uneven swap at your loss...your compass is a treat....it looks 100% perfect to me! its got a lovely patina happening there.

I should never had sold my last two boats with the sestrals.
although I did have enough nouse at the time of selling Decatur to swap out the Schatz clock and barometer for a 'cheapie' pair!

curios to know what's the significance of the copper wire from minerva reef?

[John B]

Re: Sestral Moore Compass advice please

Just the fact it was there, Bernadette, I picked it up from a rock pool. I notice there's a half coconut shell from the Lau group sitting in there too, and a bakelite light switch my grandaughter became attached to this summer...must have a tidy up...

[Bruce Brown]

Re: Sestral Moore Compass advice please

nice find! I could never win a bidding war on Catawiki for one of those. Had to settle for a two sided vertical mount Kestrel which allows for seeing the heading inside the cabin.

[Bernadette]

Re: Sestral Moore Compass advice please

nice find! I could never win a bidding war on Catawiki for one of those. Had to settle for a two sided vertical mount Kestrel which allows for seeing the heading inside the cabin.

Hi Bruce, yes I do think Im rather fortunate with this purchase. It's always a bit of a risk buying off eBay and the such like. Having said that though: Ive never ever had troubles over a number of years buying second hand products including recent purchases for hand planes.

There is currently a sestral for sale on eBay USA. I emailed the buyer awhile back to ask them to take photos of the compass without the hood on it. They replied that it wasn't possible to take the hood off! I figured they either didnt really know what they were selling or more probable that they may have been trying to hide a defective compass????

I also tried to join Catawiki. I used my SIL's residential address (in Wakefield) to join up but got found out when I logged my Australian phone number which was rather clumsy of me. Catawiki restrict certain countries with Australia being one of the countries on this list. They sent me a rather terse email to say I had been naughty! It's a bit of a shame because a lot of good compasses have been sold on that site.

The compass I purchased off eBay UK had been up for sale a long while back but the buyer didnt respond to my initial query to send to Australia. He then obviously reposted the ad and for some reason I just happened to be home with my computer on when I got a notification telling me that bidding for the compass was about to end! Long story short: he had no 'local' bidders and I had emailed him in the meantime to say I wanted to buy. So after the bidding closed he opened up the advertisement to International buyers which then permitted me to place a "buy now" bid. Having said that, I paid 100 UK pound for postage. Despite the high freight cost, It has turned out to be a very reasonably priced, in good condition, compass.