1.22 mts (4ft)

[snowleopard]

but doesn't it seem really silly when you get a sentence in an article such as

"the waves must have been 40 feet (12.129m) high"

surely (12m) would do!

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Being

Me or you???!!! how about some avoir du pois (or what ever) So you still measure depth in feet with metric charts do you...................... !

Need a crew next year???

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[Gunfleet]

Re:Have to show we are playing the game

Maurice, when I lived in France I used to find all sorts of Imperial measurements hidden within metric ones. The French use 30cm a lot! I think it's a human size rather than a rational one, which is why the Imperial system survives here no matter what. And what about plasterboard 2.44x1.22. Strange metric numbers to choose, until you realise it's eight by four feet!

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[bigmart]

Re: Being

I'll measure the depth in Chains, if it will confuse, or annoy someone.

All volunteer crew greatfully received. Some might even survive.

Martin

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Being

No no no - silly boy - death is always measured in cables.. you see they didn'nt have chains in your day

just noticed the typo --- i'll leave it as it is!

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[Robin]

Re: Being

Our electronic charts are switchable from ft to fthms to mts. Both our plotters are set on feet to match the echosounder! Our anchor chain is marked up in metres though, but then if we let out in metres what the HW height would be in feet, then we will have let out roughly 3 x the depth plus a bit for luck....

I want my fruit, veg, meat etc in lbs, my weight in stones, boat displacement, ballast in kgs, boat length, beam, draught in feet, sail area in Sq ft, diesel in gallons (UK ones not those slimline yankee ones). I play golf using yards to the green and feet for putting distance. Mountains are measured in feet not yards or metres. Distances by road are definitely in miles.

In Puerto Rico (Pseudo USA state) distances are in kilometres but their speedos/milometers are in miles, and our Irish friends are going the same way!

Isn't standardisation wonderful!

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[Chris_Robb]

Confused of Haslemere

Which way up is down?

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[Twister_Ken]

Perfidious French

And the French are quite happy to ask for a livre (a pound) of goods in the market. What they get is half a kilo, which is actually an imperial pound plus approx 10%.

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[tome]

Re: Being

If you're so inclined, how about furlongs per fortnight for the log? 1 knot = 3, 093.29516 furlongs per fortnight, according to Google.

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[bigmart]

Re: Confused of Haslemere

Where are you in Haslemere?

I work in Haslemere.

Martin

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[bigmart]

Re: Being

By gad Sir. I like the cut of your jib. One thing though, couldn't you have resolved the answer to a few more decimal places. I am a stickler for accuracy afterall.

Martin


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[Robin]

Re: Confused of Haslemere

I forgot too, SWMBO being American, that our meals are cooked from recipes in UK ozs, or is it USA ozs and a variety of tablespoons and teaspoons heaped, level or otherwise.

Whilst in France over New Year my foray into men's underwear at the Auchan Hypermarket brought further confusion because it seems there are FOUR methods of quoting sizes possible, French size 3, 4, 5 etc, European (Isn't France in Europe?) size 5, 6, 7, Imperial size M, L, XL plus the equivalent in those centipede's feet thingies.

Oh and what happened to our weather, we now have to shiver at 21 degs instead of sunning ourselves at 70 degs, our wind could be in metres/sec or Kilometres/hour or miles/hour or even in knots. Pressure is in minibars of Pernod not inches.

Then there is the good old pint, or is it 0.568lt, no its probably rounded (down of course) to 500ml or is that 500cl since my gin is apparently either in 1L bottles or 70CL.

Now If I could remember my Physics, there are also the ft lbs to kg mts and psi to kg/sq.cm. And have they eaten ALL our horses? Horsepower is now Kilowatts - which means my 2KW fan heater is 2.72HP, about half a Stuart Turner!

Now as to which way up is down I'm not sure but I'm sure there is a British Standard or an ISO that defines it somewhere.

Are you selling Corsair in £'s or those Euro things?



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[VicMallows]

Re: Confused of Haslemere

You can tell there arn't many horsey types into boating. Happy with rods/perches/thous whatever, but have never fathom'd (?) out hands.

Vic

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[Twister_Ken]

One hand

= 101.6mm. Or 1/1980th of a furlong. Easy innit?

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Confused of Haslemere

see PM

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[Capt_Marlinspike]

Metrication, what metrication?
What do road signs give distances in?
What units does the milkman deliver milk in?
What units do you use for boat speed?
What units do we use for wind speed?

What metrication.

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Confused of Haslemere

oh god - I can't stand it any more.........

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[sailorman]

THAT is my point entirely
perhaph the editorial staff might take note

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[ongolo]

Englishmen,

Wether you like it or not, the metric system is far superior. Thank to Napolon, we have it.

There are so many calculations one can do in the head in the metric system, which are impossible to do without complicated procedure in the imperial system. The more simple ones such as weight, volume and desity come to mind.

When you start talking "slug foot" (how many of you are familiar with that?) or to calculate gas pressure from flame temperature, BTU and specific gas volume of a combustible material, I have NOT met anyone yet who could do that.

Let alone the wire gage system, this is the most illogical idioting thing I have come across. Worse still, the American and the British are not even the same, just like the Gal. It get worse when somebody ays kph, which means "kilo per hour", kilo meaning 1000 - what 1000 apples or what. It must read km/h meaning kiloMETER per hour. Disgusting. How could such a lousy system of measurement bring forth genius like Newton or Kelvin or or or or....

Like it or not metric will come every where. In South Africa in the late 60's a law was passed that no publication is allowed to publish anything but metric. This sorted that out quickly. Nowadays the law is not enforced anymore, and gunmagazines publish many times ft/s.

regards ongolo

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[charles_reed]

Well for one thing

it's much easier to write 4' than 1.219m and as I've been using metric system alongside imperial for 52 years I'm not bothered. Besides there are as many Americans using '/" as there are europeans using the metric system.

No the two that really infuriate me are the use of am and pm instead of the 24 hour clock and that idiotic Fahreheit scale.

I'm sure you're above using those - of not the Biblical beam vs mote applies.

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