Weems Stormglass Operating Instructions Manufacturer of Fine Nautical Instruments
Before using: “Start” the Stormglass weather forecasting feature by shaking the stormglass up & down for - seconds. * Mounting Options: Standing Mode - to secure the Stormglass to a counter or shelf: . Unscrew the base from the Stormglass. . Insert the enclosed selftapping screw into the base (screw head nests inside base) and screw it into the counter or shelf. . Carefully screw the Stormglass onto the base.
Wall or Plaque Mounting: . Unscrew the base from the Stormglass. . Mount the base to a wall or plaque by inserting the enclosed self-tapping screw into the base (screw head nests inside the base) and screwing it into the wall/ plaque. . Find the “mounting accessory” (in the packaging - it has an internally threaded ring attached to an externally threaded post) Carefully screw the accessory’s post into the mounted base until snug.
Available as an engraved plaque to accompany Stormglass Weems & Plath, Inc. 214 Eastern Avenue Annapolis, MD 21403 www.weems-plath.com www.conantcustombrass.
the Weems & Plath® story In May of , eight years before Lindbergh’s famous solo flight, three small planes set out from Rockaway Naval Airstation, NY headed for Plymouth, England in an attempt to make the first trans-Atlantic flight. Only one of them made it. Twenty-five hundred feet below on board a station tracking ship, a young navigator, Lt. Cdr. Philip Van Horn Weems, U.S. Navy, gazed up and thought there must be a safer and simpler way than using a small armada of ships as beacons for the flight.
All his life, Weems continued to improve the instruments and broaden the applications of his methods until they came to include radio astronomy, polar exploration and even space navigation. He published numerous articles and taught navigation at the Naval Academy in the ’s. He went on to establish his own school in Annapolis to teach The Weems System of Navigation. Charles Lindbergh studied with Weems before attempting his trans-Atlantic flight.
