Aide memoirs and useful tricks for remembering stuff boaty

[mattonthesea]

There is a logical progression for lights and shapes. With one anomaly - motor vessels - the priority goes up as you add a shape or a light.

Sailing is the basic with none.
(Then motor)
Add one: fishing or trawling
Add one: constrained in passage

Add loads more and it's a minesweeper playing the bagpipes and towing a submarine!

 

[Daydream believer]

I thought I knew a few signs, lights, buoys etc. Now I have read all those shortcuts, I am so confused I do not know any. .
I think that I will stick with -senior officers have curly alban hair etc. Which is pointless because apart from the tangent (for pitch for building stairs) I have not used it since leaving school.
So I am stuck with the only other useless one I can remember
SWALK
And that is not needed on the internet

 

[Halo]

Here is my check list for leaving the boat. It’s written in the back of my logbook and saves stress and anxiety after leaving

 

[Daydream believer]

Turn off electrics, pick up wallet , phone & car keys, Lock hatch, go ashore

 

[fredrussell]

Turn off electrics, pick up wallet , phone & car keys, Lock hatch, go ashore

Mines similar but ends with “instruct pilot to warm up the helicopter”.

 

[ylop]

Turn off electrics, pick up wallet , phone & car keys, Lock hatch, go ashore

You leave your gas turned on, your sea cocks open and the fridge shut (with power off) to go fousty?

 

[Daydream believer]

Yes,(except it is always off at the valve by the cooker but not the bottle in the cockpit),
Yes,
No fridge
Only live 4.4 miles away. I am there 2-3 times a week. More if I am getting ready for a cruise.

 

[johnalison]

I assembled a check-list once but when it ran to 36 items I sort of gave up the idea.

 

[DanTribe]

Turn off electrics, pick up wallet , phone & car keys, Lock hatch, go ashore

When I had a swinging mooring the launch driver would ask.
Have you got your phone?
Have you got the your wallet?
Have you got your keys?
And he wouldn't go until all had been checked, too many return trips.

 

[Humblebee]

Something to do with zoology.

"Kinky Pat's Crazy Over Fred's Green Socks" is the one I remember.

 

[Humblebee]

For the novice - PORT is red is left
The drink is red
Four letters in port and left.

As for Cardinals
N & S speak for themselves top mark ponts up N down for S
East mark - You can draw an E through the cones pointing in opposite directions
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and for a West mark, a W through the cones pointing towards eachother.

VV

East is Egg shaped, West is Wasp Waisted?