1985 Yeoman Group plc (later Precision Navigation Ltd, UK)

Yeoman Navigator / Sport Electronic Plotter

A wire-impregnated chart table that guides your hand by four LEDs to the vessel's live position

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Overview

Deep dive

Team & pioneers

Yeoman Group plc. British manufacturer of the Yeoman plotter range from 1985.
Precision Navigation Ltd. East Anglian firm that continued manufacturing after 2004; production ceased circa 2014–15.

Media

Yeoman Navigator plotter on a yacht chart table — Yeoman Navigator plotter in use on a Hallberg-Rassy 36 chart table alongside a traditional plastic Breton plotter. Photograph by Pete Verdon (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons).

Close view of the Yeoman electronic plotter mouse — Close-up of the Yeoman electronic plotter mouse showing the transparent window and sensing ring (public domain, Wikimedia Commons).

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