ccscott49
Active member
Re: The biggest problem with a 2B
Purple pencil eaters! Bad buggers they is! especially fond of 2B's
Purple pencil eaters! Bad buggers they is! especially fond of 2B's
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claymore
Well-known member
Re: Very Interesting Strategy
Indeed
And that is much easier to achieve when motoring rather than sailing - know anyone who wants to buy a mast?
regards
Claymore
Indeed
And that is much easier to achieve when motoring rather than sailing - know anyone who wants to buy a mast?
regards
Claymore
ianwright
New member
Re: Yes, very wrong.
I think you misunderstand. I do have GPS (and decca before that) and use it with great pleasure, but I will not use it to put Patience and me in a position that would not be safe if the gps failed. I'm the nervous type...
For example,,,,,,,,,
entering Castletownbear in Ireland, a left, right, left, between sharp rocks with spray from the swell breaking twenty feet high,,,,,,, easy in good vis, but on that day the Irish mist kept the vis down to 10 yards or so. I had four gps way points set to guide me in but a voice in my brain (?) whispered "what if the power goes between waypoint 2 and 3?"
Easy decision, about turn and get into clear water until the showers went away and I could see further.
I lost an hour of pub time but felt better for it.
IanW
Vertue 203, Patience
I think you misunderstand. I do have GPS (and decca before that) and use it with great pleasure, but I will not use it to put Patience and me in a position that would not be safe if the gps failed. I'm the nervous type...
For example,,,,,,,,,
entering Castletownbear in Ireland, a left, right, left, between sharp rocks with spray from the swell breaking twenty feet high,,,,,,, easy in good vis, but on that day the Irish mist kept the vis down to 10 yards or so. I had four gps way points set to guide me in but a voice in my brain (?) whispered "what if the power goes between waypoint 2 and 3?"
Easy decision, about turn and get into clear water until the showers went away and I could see further.
I lost an hour of pub time but felt better for it.
IanW
Vertue 203, Patience
tcm
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Re: Not very wrong then
oh well that's reasonable. I thought you meant ooer better not use gps *ever* in case it breaks down.
oh well that's reasonable. I thought you meant ooer better not use gps *ever* in case it breaks down.
tcm
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Massive cheating strategy
When sailing, we have no plotter, only gps/hiway. I let someone else try and get us on track to waypoint, but not easy. Then, i have a go and (after hitting the GOTO button again and then reduce the zoom-in on the hiway) i am instantly and perfectly on track!
When sailing, we have no plotter, only gps/hiway. I let someone else try and get us on track to waypoint, but not easy. Then, i have a go and (after hitting the GOTO button again and then reduce the zoom-in on the hiway) i am instantly and perfectly on track!
claymore
Well-known member
Re: Massive cheating strategy
Hmm
Not a strategy I would employ as it seems like moving the goalposts. In truth it would appear that I'm climbing onto some form of ethical high horse which would be a load of cobblers really, once the steam driven claymore-raytheon gps is up to working pressure, I tend to leave it alone and not touch a damned thing and then if it conks it wasn't me
regards
Claymore
Hmm
Not a strategy I would employ as it seems like moving the goalposts. In truth it would appear that I'm climbing onto some form of ethical high horse which would be a load of cobblers really, once the steam driven claymore-raytheon gps is up to working pressure, I tend to leave it alone and not touch a damned thing and then if it conks it wasn't me
regards
Claymore
ccscott49
Active member
Re: Massive cheating strategy
I thought you'd upgraded to diesel driven?
I thought you'd upgraded to diesel driven?
claymore
Well-known member
Re: Massive cheating strategy
Nah
- can't afford it
unless you've got some going cheap.
Playtime is it?
Bored are we?
Its come sunny here and pleasant, just like that pretty little thing that does the weather said it would
what about you
Oh bugger - can't believe we are talking about the sodding weather!
regards
Claymore
Nah
- can't afford it
unless you've got some going cheap.
Playtime is it?
Bored are we?
Its come sunny here and pleasant, just like that pretty little thing that does the weather said it would
what about you
Oh bugger - can't believe we are talking about the sodding weather!
regards
Claymore
claymore
Well-known member
Re: No doubt when Harrison perfected the chronometer..
The same thing happens in teaching
Cutting edgers like my good self enjoy using digital projectors and interactive whiteboards to improve the learning experience for students -
The pillocks in construction are still happy with chalk and illegible writing on badly cleaned boards
regards
Claymore
The same thing happens in teaching
Cutting edgers like my good self enjoy using digital projectors and interactive whiteboards to improve the learning experience for students -
The pillocks in construction are still happy with chalk and illegible writing on badly cleaned boards
regards
Claymore
ccscott49
Active member
Re: Massive cheating strategy
Always playtime when I'm at work, my job tends to be a couple of days of absolute panic interspersed with days nay weeks of utter boredom, thats when you find me on here, but come the weekend "I'll be up to my arse in alligators and will have forgotten my first task was to drain the swamp!" The weather here is it's normal crap, no it's not, just looked outside its effin' snowing! No, we do not get time off for snowball fights!
Always playtime when I'm at work, my job tends to be a couple of days of absolute panic interspersed with days nay weeks of utter boredom, thats when you find me on here, but come the weekend "I'll be up to my arse in alligators and will have forgotten my first task was to drain the swamp!" The weather here is it's normal crap, no it's not, just looked outside its effin' snowing! No, we do not get time off for snowball fights!
Spacewaist
Member
If learning experiences are otherwise the subject
.... Id prefer to read you pontificating about the weather.
LOOK OUT!!! Behind y.......! Five hoots and you're out!
.... Id prefer to read you pontificating about the weather.
LOOK OUT!!! Behind y.......! Five hoots and you're out!
rhinorhino
New member
Nothing wromg with using GPS etc, but I was taught that going direct from one WP to another on long tidal passages was less efficent than working out a course to steer (on Seapro) and using that where there are no hazards on route, is this wrong? You get a nice line I get an S shaped ground track, which is faster?
ccscott49
Active member
The nice "S" is faster.
claymore
Well-known member
Float that one
past me one more time - in a tongue similar to that of my own dear mother tongue, in order that I might understand.
Please....
regards
Claymore
past me one more time - in a tongue similar to that of my own dear mother tongue, in order that I might understand.
Please....
regards
Claymore
claymore
Well-known member
will it not be faster to sail the course that gets you to your destination having made allowances for the tide?
This is all about course made good in dinghy training parlance. If you aim at your fixed waypoint and there is a strong cross flow of tide then the Xtrack error will make itself evident and unless you adjust your course you won't end up where you wanted. If you set a course which allows for the tide then you'll not end up down (or up) tide of your destination which is more efficient therefore quicker?
Is that what you meant?
regards
Claymore
This is all about course made good in dinghy training parlance. If you aim at your fixed waypoint and there is a strong cross flow of tide then the Xtrack error will make itself evident and unless you adjust your course you won't end up where you wanted. If you set a course which allows for the tide then you'll not end up down (or up) tide of your destination which is more efficient therefore quicker?
Is that what you meant?
regards
Claymore
plopp
New member
Re: f747 charts
When flying light aircraft you still use flight maps, most commercial aircraft have a flight management computor which has huge memory of at that airlines routes, When the flight crew go for pre flight briefing they are given a computor print out of that days flight which contains all the waypoints lat long of waypoin,and any changes to flight routing ,ie wars,or even weather.the crew monitor waypoints and aircrafts lat long through the flight. the crew can deviate from them due atmospherics ie storm cells or change in altitude for better winds (tail winds) after radio clearance.
They carry a set of carts for air fields called aerads, which contains imformation on runway heading different radio frequecies missed aproaches,and more sort of flying shell pilot guide,updated every month.
they used to use a sextant on the B.O.A.C. VC10`s when flying London Tokyo for positional updates flying the Great Circle route.
When flying light aircraft you still use flight maps, most commercial aircraft have a flight management computor which has huge memory of at that airlines routes, When the flight crew go for pre flight briefing they are given a computor print out of that days flight which contains all the waypoints lat long of waypoin,and any changes to flight routing ,ie wars,or even weather.the crew monitor waypoints and aircrafts lat long through the flight. the crew can deviate from them due atmospherics ie storm cells or change in altitude for better winds (tail winds) after radio clearance.
They carry a set of carts for air fields called aerads, which contains imformation on runway heading different radio frequecies missed aproaches,and more sort of flying shell pilot guide,updated every month.
they used to use a sextant on the B.O.A.C. VC10`s when flying London Tokyo for positional updates flying the Great Circle route.
chriscallender
Active member
This is indeed true. As an exercise, on my coastal skipper theory course we recently had to work out that it could add about 2 hours onto a cross channel crossing of otherwise 15 hours (@5 knots) if you keep XTE=0 compared with allowing for the tide in advance.
Which as the instructor put it is the difference between making it in time for a few beers, or missing last orders...
Chris
Which as the instructor put it is the difference between making it in time for a few beers, or missing last orders...
Chris
claymore
Well-known member
It seems in Scotland that the tide is either on the nose or up the chuff, so its really a matter of is we or isn't we going anywhere!
regards
Claymore
regards
Claymore
Twister_Ken
Well-known member
Begorrah, do you niver go across the sea to the land of whiskey?
muchy_
New member
When we take our clothes out of the washing machine do we feel guilty for not having used the scrubbing board?
I for one will make good use of modern technology because thats what it was invented for and just use the old fashioned way if I really have no other choice.
I for one will make good use of modern technology because thats what it was invented for and just use the old fashioned way if I really have no other choice.
