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I swiped this from www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/img/compass-new.gif . The line engraving style on a 32 point compass and the notation makes it visually interesting.
"Popeye studied it, checked the compass needle quivering in front of him, and turned the ships bow 5 degrees to starboard"
- Popeye Ghost Ship, page 86.
I read an interesting article on the internets this weekend written by The History Girl. She did a piece on an archaeological excavation of an historic smokehouse in Middletown Township, New Jersey. It is only about 15 miles from me on The King’s Highway. I don’t think the King of England himself ever made it over when New Jersey was a colony, but they sure named plenty of highways after him.
“According to The History Girl,” I told Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring, “This smokehouse is built into the side of a hill on the grounds of the Taylor-Butler Orchard Home. I think I’m calling a mission to visit the site.”
The next morning, Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring and I woke up Little Texas Aggie Bear very early. Of course, it was difficult to wake him up, as it was with all bears. It’s in their nature.
“Get up!” Aggie Ring yelled at the little bear. “We’ve got magic to do. I’ll make a thermos of hot tea!”
Decades of serving in the Regular Army taught Aggie Ring to always take an inventory of his equipment before heading out on a dangerous mission. Aggie Ring called out the checklist for me.
“Let’s see…” said Aggie Ring. “I’ll call out the name of the equipment and you verify.”
“Official looking photographer’s safety vest to throw off the police if we have to break and enter an historic site?”
“Check!” I replied.
“Little Aggie Bear to distract law enforcement or county employees if the vest doesn’t work.”
“Check”
“Compass?”
“Check”
“Camera tripod?”
“Check”
“Toilet paper?”
“Check”
“Collapsable light reflector?”
“Check”
“Camera tripod?”
“Check”
“Bottled water”
“Check”
“Camera, extra batteries, and lenses appropriate for the mission?”
“Check”
Aggie Ring turned to me and announced. “I think we’re good. Time to hit the beach.”
We drove the 25 km up the Garden State Parkway to the historic site. Luckily, the historic home was closed on Mondays and there was no one there to interfere with Aggie Ring’s evil plan. Texas Aggie Ring and I sent Little Texas Aggie Bear on a one-bear patrol ahead of us to make sure the area of interest was secure and to set up perimeter security.
“Don’t crap in the woods!” Aggie Ring yelled at Little Texas Aggie Bear as he was bear crawling towards the general location of the historical smokehouse. The History Girl said in her article that it was “North” of the homestead. That compass on the iPhone came in handy.
After about 10 minutes, Aggie Ring and I didn’t hear any gunfire so we decided it was safe to proceed. Shortly after we entered the heavily wooded area, I mentioned to Aggie Ring, “This reminds me of parts of Central Texas. It’s a damn good thing I’m one of those lucky people not allergic to Poison Ivy, Poison Ivy, Late at night while you're sleepin' poison Ivy comes a'creepin'
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound”
Aggie Ring and I continued on a North heading being careful not to step on any twigs or branches so as not to give our position away to the enemy.
Eventually, we heard, “Psssst.” It was Little Texas Aggie Bear. He had located the historic homestead smokehouse built into the side of a small hill. “I don’t think anyone is around or saw us.” he whispered.
For an historic smokehouse, it was fairly impressive. According to The History Girl, it was built here into a small hillside circa 1850. There aren’t many of those left these days. The County Historical Association recently received a grant from the 1772 Foundation and the New Jersey Historic Trust to restore the smokehouse to its former smokin’ glory.
A few days earlier, Dr. Richard Velt, a Professor of Anthropology who is also the Chair of the Department of History at nearby Monmouth University conducted some test digs to verify that the foundation of the smokehouse was stable. Texas Aggie Ring looked up Dr. Velt on the internets. “Oh bother.” sighed Texas Aggie Ring. “He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He probably eats Philly scrapple. Still, I suppose that’s better than Trenton, NJ pork roll.”
According to the article on the internets, the foundation is stable and the Dr. Velt also discovered that there was once an underground ice house nearby where they’d store ice cut into blocks from the nearby river to have during the miserable hot summer months to make mint juleps. “Underground ice house?” asked Texas Aggie Ring. “That would be a most excellent location for my Secret Underground Lair which I could use to takeover the world.”
“Where’s the Stargate?” asked Little Texas Aggie Bear.
“Silly bear.” I chided him. “The Stargate is on the other side of the homestead. You can’t have smoke from a smokehouse blowing into a Stargate and onto another planet. That’s just plain rude and one doesn’t want uninvited aliens coming back through the Stargate expecting to be fed.”
Texas Aggie Ring and I put our two Texas A&M Engineering degrees to work and gave the historic smokehouse a good looking over. We took a sensible 100+ photos to document our dangerous mission. The structure itself appeared to be in fairly good shape considering that it most likely hasn’t been used in well over a century.
Aggie Ring said to me. “Well, the lower half of the smokehouse below the roofline appears to be in fine condition. The bricks are going to need to be repointed, of course. The roof is going to need to be totally replaced and a brickmason is going to have to conduct some serious repair along the top of the structure.”
I took a few photos of Little Texas Aggie Bear and Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring sitting upon the wall of the smokehouse strictly for historical purposes. As usual, Aggie Ring taunted the little bear by telling him, “You do know it is still legal to hunt bear in New Jersey during the hunting season. It is quite possible that besides beef and pork, the family who once owned this homestead smoked bear meat.”
Little Texas Aggie Bear let out a yelp and ran towards the car. I’ve never seen a bear so small move so quickly.
Former Grey Green Leyland Royal Tiger Plaxton Paramount 3500 A850 UYM is seen in Hastings on 11th September, 1997. I don't know anything about Compass but believe they were from the Stoke on Trent area.
Foundation-pieced seat pad - to learn how to do a compass design. Cotton batiks bought at Yoders Department Store on a trip to Indianna. Machine pieced and quilted. 2005.
For 2014, the Jeep Compass interior has been tastefully upgraded with accents and trim that customers will appreciate. Upgraded features include a new interior trim option in the Compass Limited model: Saddle Brown perforated leather seating with accent stitching. The Latitude model includes a new sport mesh and vinyl seat with light gray accent stitching, and the Light Pebble Beige trim features a new Tangerine accent stitch on the seats. In addition, the armrests and center console lid are now wrapped in vinyl and the instrument cluster overlay graphics have been updated.
New satin chrome finish adorns the center bezel, shifter bezel and pull cups and a new bin applique with badge round out the interior design upgrades.
Compass Bus took over service 32 on 1st June 2015, following previous operator Arriva's decision its financial performance was not good enough - Compass won the resulting Surrey CC tender process.
Four new Enviro200s were acquired for the route. The fourth arrival, YY15 NHM, is seen here heading through Reigate High Street on its way to Guildford.
High Street, Reigate, Surrey.
One of Compass' fleet of ex GHA Coaches Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipses works a 100 service out of Storrington on 22nd August, 2019.
47580 powers up towards the tunnel at Bl.Ffestiniog in the 'obligatory' rain towards Llandudno Junction.
My love for the sea and boats, as well as for the people who roam through and respect it, have made a business man like myself involved in national and multinational enterprises to experience and enjoy it in a different way.
I have always believed that in order to become an accomplished manager, one needs to grasp, apart from his science, something from the mysteries of sea and music.
And what could business administration be, if not a well tuned orchestra or the steady steering of a speed or sailing boat? Especially when the weather is bad… regardless that bad weather and beau forts are a sailor’s heaven and a speedboat’s captain skill ensure the whiskey is not stirred.
Having been yachting and sailing for decades, and having photographed and filmed the way of life on and outside a boat, its joyous and dangerous moments, as well as all the feasts, special times, activities and fun both underwater and on land. My life’s sea touring experiences in Greece, whose perimeter is bigger than Africa’s, has been turned into a movie.
After that, I decided to do the same for my friends. Now that technology permits it, I have photographed and filmed with my land and underwater equipment, directed, edited the music and with the use of state of the art technology, such as editing , authoring and director’s suites software, developed the final product into a DVD.
Have you ever imagined having a personal DVD all your beloved moments after a weekend or your holiday at sea with your private or rented boat?
With children or family, friends or guests, current or future investors or funders?
I’m sure you have a CD collection at home, just as you have a photo or slides album. It is possible that you also have DVD collection with your favorite movies or concerts. So why not have on DVD a collection of your sea excursions; where the star is you, your friends, your family, the boat, its living room, genoa, sheets, spinnakers, compass and chart room, sun deck, diving, beaches, nights under the moon and waves…
Aren’t all these things most valued in life?
Isn’t it a shame for all these things to be forgotten?
All these memories and spontaneous moments can be saved as pictures or videos on DVD; narrated by you or your beloved ones, with music of your choice and a suitable navigation menu. Thus, it will be available to enjoy alone or with friends on any DVD player and have your special nights by presenting your own unique experiences at sea. Create your own documentaries.
All this can become true for you by simply contacting me and setting up an appointment for further details.
Leandros Abatzopoulos
Edited illustration from the Internet Archive Book Image Photostream on Flickr of a compass rose with a fancy arrow pointing north.
The other service subbed out by Brighton & Hove is the two bus 7X servce which was introduced this season and operates direct along the seafront between the City Centre and the Marina. LJ05 BNK (former DW126) is one of a pair of former Arriva London VDL DB250 Wright Geminis recently purchased by Compass Bus and is seen at the Pier today, 23rd July, 2016.
This old compass was amongst my Grandads possesions. We should use compasses more often - they don't send you the wrong way like sat nav systems, and they don't have batteries that can run out!
365 photo - 24.08.2011
A colourful collection of ex GHA Coaches Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipses are currently on hire to Compass Bus for the ex Sussex Bus routes. CA58 GHA is seen in Burgess Hill today, 3rd October, 2016.