Being a skipper….

[fisherman]

B O A T. Break out another thousand.

 

[LittleSister]

Overall responsibility,carry the can,stopping the buck

Being elsewhere when cans require carrying, and advanced skills in deflecting approaching bucks, have advantages in many companies, I belatedly realised.

'If you can keep your head job/salary/bonus when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on anyone but you . . .'

If in doubt, propose another reorganisation. Get people worrying about what is just about to happen, rather than what just happened.

Doesn't translate well to yacht skippering, though.

 

[Wansworth]

Being elsewhere when cans require carrying, and advanced skills in deflecting approaching bucks, have advantages in many companies, I belatedly realised.

'If you can keep your head job/salary/bonus when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on anyone but you . . .'

If in doubt, propose another reorganisation. Get people worrying about what is just about to happen, rather than what just happened.

Doesn't translate well to yacht skippering, though.

You are a word smith

 

[38mess]

Not just Dutchmen.

One of the instructors at South Shields said they would maintain full service speed as it made RADAR plotting easier - all the other targets appeared stationary. Obviously long before ARPA was around. We had to learn to set up and tune cathode ray screens. They did have one more modern screen for us to see.

On a similar theme, years later I was running RADAR simulator courses. One of the bridge teams literally lost the plot while in the Dover Straight TSS. Their novel solution was to stop their ship to create a true motion display. Made for an interesting de-brief as their track and actions were played back, plus comments from other bridge teams.

I caught the big cat ferry to jersey or was it Guernsey a while back. A beautiful sunny day flat calm doing 40knts, suddenly it went dark, we hit fog, the Speedo didn't flicker

 

[johnalison]

I caught the big cat ferry to jersey or was it Guernsey a while back. A beautiful sunny day flat calm doing 40knts, suddenly it went dark, we hit fog, the Speedo didn't flicker

I take it that it wasn’t the one that grounded off La Corbiere a few years ago, or I think even you would have noticed.