Coastal Kit?

[ccscott49]

Re: Starter kit for cheap gits

Wow! of course! What the bluidy hell ye' blethering aboot? Think I'll stick to my douglas protractor, parallel rule and pencil! Bloody compass roses, deviation, declination, variation! stuff all that poop, do it all in true!

 

[MBJB]

Re: Starter kit for cheap gits

Nah! I spend my time in IT depts. so can't use a pencil or a pencil sharpener. No savings there.

Think I'll go and buy myself a handheld first so I can practice by using it to find my way to one of those car-boot sale things and get a sextant. Might even find one of those vases of fake flowers that seem to be de rigeur on the river these days (do coasty types have similar or is it all oil skins and barf buckets..?)

Mike

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Starter kit for cheap gits

Coastal types do have the flowers, but they put scoot guard under the vase. Dont ask what scoot guard is, you'll learn soon enough!! Not many sextants at car boot sales, all in maritime themed pubs!

 

[tcm]

Re: Starter kit for cheap gits in med

The "Livre de Bord" is the recognised pilot for french waters and is nearly sort-of mandatory for french-reg boats in that if you have it there's no problem in that regard, but if you don't they'd want to see what else you have. Covers all french and french inland coast incl routes to paris, plus corsica and balearix and e spain and bits of italy. Port by port, plus loads of services info, bit better than macmillan i wd say. Lots of bits in english for english-only speaking types, packed with nfo like phone nos for which even a non-fr speaker can read. A very big plus is that it's up to date and almost all the phone numbers are correct, which can't be said for the rod heikell stuff at sevrel times the price. Charts are made by SHOM, not far from same rip-off as admiralty, praps a bit less.

 

[nicho]

Most cars are these days fitted with ABS - if you need it more than once a year you're travelling too fast or too close to the car in front. Thing is, on that one occasion you thank god you've got it - same with radar. Get caught out in fog once without it, and you will fit it immediately!!

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

VHF radio and relevant training. Means you can shout for help when your plastic ruler thingy breaks down or SWMBO drops the GPS overboard.

Two beers please, my friend is paying.

 

[BarryH]

Sorry chaps I'm never gonna set foot on one of your boats, unless your gonna plie me with loads of beer. A couple of you have come close to it. What about a bloody COMPASS first. Then a the leccy toys. Doh!!!!

OK, to hell with it. Unbolt it and we'll use it as an anchor!

 

[nicho]

Apart from dinghies, is there any boat out there that doesn't have a compass as standard - I think he was looking for the most important bit beyond that

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Starter kit for cheap gits in med

Looks like a "must have" especially considering my plans for next year, thankyou!

 

[BarryH]

Well its a river based boat. I've done a bit of work on quiet a few boats up and down the Thames and to be honest only a handful have had compasses fitted. Didn't you know, it gets in the way of the vase of flowers!!

OK, to hell with it. Unbolt it and we'll use it as an anchor!

 

[ccscott49]

I would have thought even a river boat would have a compass, something to talk about over the pimms!