Magnetic declinations changing?

[Redsoxticket]

The present navigational compass would no longer be accurate. The face plate would need to be shifted to get a true reading of North but I'm sure there is more to be considered. An enhanced digital compass or GPS is useless w/o power.

[MoroneSaxatilis]

Originally Posted by Redsoxticket

The present navigational compass would no longer be accurate. The face plate would need to be shifted to get a true reading of North but I'm sure there is more to be considered.

While returning from from fishing in Vineyard Sound in early summer, I noticed that the magnetic course that I usually steer to get from point A to point B seemed to have me heading in the wrong direction. I thought that maybe there was something on the dash throwing my compass off such as a plug or a knife or something, but that wasn't the case. The same was true on a subsequent trip about a week later, and I was going nuts trying to figure out why my compass seemed to suddenly be off.
About a week later I read that after a slow and steady shift towards the NW, the pole had taken a dramatic jump from the Arctic Ocean to somewhere NW of Alaska.

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Anyone know how far off a compass would be by moving the N pole 1000 miles?

My compass seemed to be off by about 7°. There are services here in NB that regularly set the deviation between true & magnetic N for the compasses on fishing vessels.