A Matter of Time...

[StugeronSteve]

For the last weekends jolly to Cherbourg I used UTC as ships time, whereas on a normal coastal outing I work on LT. It worked well enough but I'm not sure on the whole whether the use of three time zones over one weekend simplified or complicated matters. I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of others...

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[Robin]

I use local time always, but plans/notes where times are stated have the time underlined as GMT (sorry I use old money still), BST or FST (for France usually, not Fiji). Almanac tide pages or forecast times are also underlined and/or have notes added like 'ADD 1HR For FST'. So I don't forget I do this when changing the almanac to the latest one, just copy across the page notes. I don't like to have to think too hard at 4am on a wet & wild night! On board clocks and watches are changed to local time for anything more than a one nighter, even then my watch is changed.

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[LadyInBed]

Ships time always stays on current UK time, so I always get up late!


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[Twister_Ken]

In the channel I generally stay on whatever UK local time is, becasue that's the way my tide tables are written. Which is why my speech in Cherbourg was so scrambled. I rolled back to the lugger, having allowed myself a BST hour to scribble some notes. And then Big Nick said, "Time for the wine tasting". Duh!

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[ParaHandy]

UTC for crosschannel ..... in the logbook anyway which i find best for planning etc ... i think there's less chance of making an error and i use the CA log book which asks for a single time base (which I like). otherwise, like you, LT elsewhere. Ship's time is always UK time ...

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