The importance of having an anchor light

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What is exactly wrong with it? It seems that nearly everyone else but four of you on here plot like that.

And you teach!!! :rolleyes: So you wouldn't pull up a student logging data as ambiguous as that?

So what is it, decimal degrees or deg decimal minutes.

And you really think that's acceptable sloppiness for a country's military to be promulgating publicly ?

Hope we're all a long way away when any missiles go up, could land anywhere ....

You really should stop digging that big hole you're in any deeper. ;)
Just cos yer mates in the navy are making a fool of themselves.
 

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And you teach!!! :rolleyes: So you wouldn't pull up a student logging data as ambiguous as that?

So what is it, decimal degrees or deg decimal minutes.

And you really think that's acceptable sloppiness for a country's military to be promulgating publicly ?

Hope we're all a long way away when any missiles go up, could land anywhere ....

You really should stop digging that big hole you're in any deeper. ;)
Just cos yer mates in the navy are making a fool of themselves.
You really are wetting your pants with this....
 

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Leaving aside the handbags at dawn discussions about the way to give a position, I'm still wondering if the bloke who decided this warranted a Notice to Mariners isn't a mate - or sworn enemy - of the owner of the boat in question.

I see the name isn't shown in the cancellation, though most of the other details of the original are. Have Words Been Had? We need to be told.
 

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Leaving aside the handbags at dawn discussions about the way to give a position, I'm still wondering if the bloke who decided this warranted a Notice to Mariners isn't a mate - or sworn enemy - of the owner of the boat in question.

I see the name isn't shown in the cancellation, though most of the other details of the original are. Have Words Been Had? We need to be told.

I don't read that as a cancellation, it just supersedes the first NTM
 

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A bit like the grocer's apostrophe isn't it.


Indeed; or even the cook"s seasoning: a dash' here and a sprinkle" there .without` thinking too. much about it.

Until something goes wrong.

Hey, ho, that's where the taxpayer comes in!
 
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Well, if grocers and cooks can cause confusion lets not go down the decimal separator and number separator route; damn the French.
 

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Apparently there is a standard for writing Lat and Long: ISO 6709 - Wikipedia

That's how I remember it from the year dot - apart from the three decimals of seconds which is getting silly.

I don't see decimal minutes in there. Have I missed it or is it non-preferred? I do prefer DMS myself. I would also write 095 Long rather than 95, keeping three digits to be consistent.
 

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That's how I remember it from the year dot - apart from the three decimals of seconds which is getting silly.
Sir Tom reckons on degrees , digital minutes. Don't most people use that these days?

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It has been superseded by the NTM in post #61

The substantive differences are the name of the boat is no longer given and an approximately location relative to a known landmark is included.
 
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