01 · CARD
Open spine
The mark sits past one o'clock. Sound wind will hold the face open. We clock it closed or we send the player to a path conversation, never both on one watch.
Watch 05 · 25th Avenue · lubber line
Clock the hosel before the card calls the face open.
Hosel Clock is a harbor pelorus, not a boutique. Elodie sights the spine against the lubber line the way a pilot sights a heading: two o'clock on the hosel means this face is already open to Ship Island wind, or the factory dot was stamped for a different heading. We do not bless a painted pip as true north.
02 · LUBBER
Pretty pip that lies
A factory dot can sit wherever the painter liked. We refuse to treat paint as a lubber line.
03 · GYRO
Uneven headings
Long irons sit open; wedges still square. That is a build date wearing a set costume. The card keeps them on separate watches.
Heard on Point Cadet
Bearings people actually logged
I swore the four was square. Merritt put the pelorus on the spine and it sat at two. They clocked it closed an hour. Handsboro stopped leaking right on still evenings.
Elodie asked whether I play Long Beach mornings or the Sound after work. I said both. Jules said pick a wind hour or own two headings. Useful the way a gyro repeater is useful.
Why a pelorus desk
A factory pip is a postcard heading. The spine is the card.
Players arrive quoting a builder who swore the dot was twelve. Mississippi Sound does not read dots. It reads whether the hosel is already sitting open after two summers of Ship Island wind, and whether a four that photographed square in a garage is already two hours off when the rye goes firm in May.
Merritt Cobb holds the pelorus. Elodie Vane decides clock, leave, or send the player to a path conversation. Jules Parnell names the Sound hour. Nobody here paints a pip to make a photograph happier.