Handmade Wooden Nautical Dial (for Teaching Sailing?) Zanesville planter and into which they fit

and into which they fit perfectly

holding a cache of collected rocks or shells

Handwoven of beach grass

hydrometer was an old thermometer

I think the shape is just perfect

Handmade Wooden Nautical Dial (for Teaching Sailing?) Zanesville planter and into which they fitI'm not a sailor, but I think this interesting old handmade dial would be instructive if a novice like me were to try to put it to use. The black "boat" at the center is annotated with Port and Starboard (missing the first few letters), Forward and Aft, and then depending on which direction one points to boat, there are notes on the middle disk relative to positions of bow and beam. At least this is what I think is going on here! Mostly, I just think