Yokogawa Gyro Compass Cmz 700 User Manual Apr 2026

Saito didn't answer. He opened the manual to the last page. Not a specification, not a schematic. A single line in small italics:

He installed it himself over a quiet Tuesday. The Third Mate, a boy named Tanaka who watched TikTok on the bridge wing, asked, "Captain, does it still point to magnetic north?" yokogawa gyro compass cmz 700 user manual

He returned to the manual. Page 4-17: It described a phenomenon called settling error —a phantom offset caused by the gyro aligning not to true north, but to a plane of rotation influenced by the ship’s own course changes. The cure was a "latitude damping" reset. He performed it. The display flickered, reset, and returned to 271.3. Saito didn't answer

Then came the deviation.