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Big Pistons Forever
[…]When we were out of sight of land he would come up to the bridge to look at the standby gyro compass repeater to see which way was East. The crew would make a point of slewing the card 180 degrees just before he arrived.....
So who
hasn't re-arranged the furniture in a Middle Eastern hotel room, to point the Mecca-this-way green arrow in the wrong direction....