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Years ago, Casio came out with a wrist watch that, at the time, was just about the perfect sailing watch for me. It had built in all the tools I needed. First it kept chronometer-like time so I could rely on it for celestial navigation if the GPS failed. Then, it had an alarm that was easy to set so I would never be late for a night watch. It had a pale screen that would stay illuminated long enough to set the alarm. It had a stop-watch with several modes, which you can use for timing the flash-periods of occulting lighthouses. Best of all, it had an altimeter-barometer built in that displayed a tracking of the last 24 hours of barometric pressure. This made the watch a game changer since weather at sea can be very local and pressure trends can tell you a lot about what\u2019s coming. But by today\u2019s standards, that watch was pretty analogue and we definitely live in a digital, blue-tooth, wi-fi world. The boffins at Sailing Today magazine went out to see whast is what in sailing watches and wrote up their findings in a recent issue. Read more here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42472,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445\/revisions\/42472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}