Take a close look at this picture and tell me what kind of project I’m working on.
Hint: it’s related to the most-viewed page on Navagear.com, after the front page.
Navagear quiz #2: What am I working on?
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Filling disposable LPG cylinders from a larger refillable one.
When balanced and suspended from a lanyard it’s an emergency compass.
No wait!….It’s a device for removing a fish hook from your backside.
It’s a multimode device for determining mast height on sailboats. You can count tic marks from mast head to deck and multiply by the length, go up on a bosun’s chair and drop it while measuring the time it takes to hit the deck, use it to make a pendulum with a spare halyard and time the oscillation, back away from the boat while holding it at arm’s length until the visual angle matches (then do some trig), or offer to give it to the boatbuilder in exchange for revealing the information.
When not being used for its primary purpose, you can even pass propane through it as the first commenter suggested. These are gonna sell like hotcakes! I want one.
Gerry got it. Dan is silly. Steve Roberts is a geek.
you are working on a way to kill your self and make it look like an accident so the kids can spend the life insurance.???