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    Astro: My Disconcerting discrepancy

    Lunar distances have never been used to fix a position. This was a technique to find GMT. You observe the distance between the center of the Moon an a star. At a given time, this angle is the same, regardless of the observers position. The observed distance was then used to calculate the true...
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    Astro: My Disconcerting discrepancy

    This problem does not exist. The change in declination does not influence the precision of a PL. Otherwise star fixes would generally give poor position lines, because a star's declination never changes.
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    Plotters/Charts Obsolete?

    No need for that. You could buy a waterproof case for the first one at a fraction of the price of the second one. They will, but it is a painful process.
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    Yachtmaster Standards

    They send feedback forms to a statistically relevant portion of the candidates.
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    Where is the worst area you have sailed?

    The worst area I ever sailed was the Gulf of Mexico: Sizzling hot and very little wind, despite the daily thunder storm late afternoon.
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    EPIRB or PLB?

    EPIRB's activate automatically if dropped into the water. PLB's are manually activated only.
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    And why exactly has the Commercial Endorsement thread been removed?

    At least, removing this tread removed a lot of false information. This helps to keep up the qualitiy of this forum.
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    RYA Master of Yacht 200 vs MCA Master of yacht 200

    STWC95 is much more than just the basic training. It stands for "Standard of training, certification and watchkeeping" and regulates all the qualifications for professional seafarers as a world-wide minimum standard. The basic safety training STCW code A-VI/1-1 to A-VI/1-4 is the very basic...
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    RYA Master of Yacht 200 vs MCA Master of yacht 200

    The RYA Yachtmaster gives you the same rights on a British flagged vessel in UK waters as the MCA Master Code Vessels 200 gt with one little exeption: The Yachtmaster is not valid to act as a mate on yachts > 200 > 500 gt more than 150 miles from a save haven (sea area 0). The MCA Master is a...
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    where to buy open CPN charts

    There is a chart company www.nv-verlag.de in Germany that sells digital Imray charts in a raster format OpenCPN works with. You just need the NV plug-in which you could download from the OpenCPN website.
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    Looking for a qualifying Passage

    Hi, I am looking for a mate's position on an ocean passage of at least 600 nm (qualifying passage for Yachtmaster Ocean) from mid of November or later. A trip from Europe to the Canaries or from the UK to Portugal would be perfect. Relevant experience in offshore sailing and hard work is...
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    The cost of UKHO raster charts?

    It would not. Worldwide Coverage is just 6000 Pounds. Cheaper than most commercial suppliers.
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    Who should be blamed in this collision???

    Isn't there are local rule in this area to give a berth of at least 1000 Meters to large vessels?
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    Which yachts up to 38' have an inside steering position?

    Inside steering is available in yachts of less than 28 feet. Just have a look at the Hai 760 DS: http://www.arp-yachtbau.de
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    RYA Ocean Plotting

    The "math method" is nothing but a formal descripton of what the "graph method" does.
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