Container Identification Course

[jimi]

There seem to be a lot of peeps here who have no idea what a submerged container looks like from the deck of a yacht .. I am offering a day course to identify such objects .. beers for instructor is only fee .. Tome has kindly offered to organise the course using his blueberry cheesecake organgrinder. Expressions of interest first before we take this further.

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[Twister_Ken]

Clarification requested

Shirley if it was submerged you wouldn't see it? Not without full Jock Cousteau gear, anyway. Or a glass-bottomed boat. Have you considered approaching Pilkington for sponsorhip of Glen Poseur?

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[jimi]

Re: Clarification requested

Aha .. you have identified yourself as needing a tuit! I also see that in the glassy eyed thread you claim to bat for the blinds .. I can help you for a large fee!

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[Twister_Ken]

Re: Clarification requested

That depends what you mean by "a large feel", foureyes..

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[tome]

Jim

Count me in. Would this include any Needle-work?

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[Twister_Ken]

Tome, you mean you're really planning to sail with the 'Cursor the Channel'?

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[tome]

you mean Cocked Hat o' the Channel?

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[jimi]

The basic course probably won't do the needlework bit, but if demand is sufficient I'd probably bring it in the intermediate course. Think the basic course will be too advanced for TK, will devise a preparatory course for him involving hands on feely bits of small submerged fray bentos tins distressing themselves in landing nets.

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[Twister_Ken]

>fray bentos tins distressing themselves<

Does this make them go blind?

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[tome]

But if you were to tell him that the container was full of sustainable Burmese seasoned teak in 50mm strips, would that get his attention?

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[jimi]

For you Ken, I'll do an own boat course of

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[jimi]

Was that what happened to you?

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[Twister_Ken]

Cheeky wee lummock. I can find CH1 without a chartplotter, and know perfectly well that any container south of the Wight is not in the Needles Channel.

Long live Alderney aero beacon

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[tome]

I think CH1 has been sitting in a yard in Harwich for some years now, tricky to spot an a x-channel trip/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[wishbone]

Very spooooky..Iv'e been told It looks like.....sounds like....things that go bump, thud, bang, woooosh, may day may day may day.. in the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Gunfleet]

5* recommendation

I've done this course with jimi and it really is very good. At the end of it I could tell the difference between a fridge and a ship's container, could recognise the needles by the fact that they are those big things sticking out of the needles channel, could recognise BIGNICK by his posh and frankly incredulous sounding voice over the radio and had watched our teacher baffle the coastguard in a blind navigation exercise where he read the location of his plotter cursor and they had to guess where he was. Jimi won, but eventually told them where he was because they were getting upset. Mornington Crescent is as nothing compared to a weekend doing jimi's container id course. Unmissable.

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[tome]

Hear hear!

Though not direct participants, we were in a support vessel receiving BIGNICK relays throughout. We were able to plot the Needles from the subsequent alert, and they were absolutely spot-on. That's when we jettisoned our fridge.

Highly recommended.

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[BlueSkyNick]

Re: 5* recommendation

Any southerner's voice must sound posh to somebody from Essex!

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[Gunfleet]

Re: 5* recommendation

I was only relaying the reaction of the Caledonian contingent, who mimiced it and rolled about the cockpit laughing at their own efforts to sound like you every time you asked 'Are you sure it's not a refrigerator, Glen Rosa?' in a POSH INCREDULOUS voice. Anyway though I live here I'm not from here, a bit like lions in a zoo. Tooley Street would be closer to the mark, though you're right to the extent everyone sounds posh if you're from there.

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[Colin_S]

Great course and I hope to participate soon. I did the theory last year at night school and I can't wait for a hands on lesson.

Here's a sample of the excellent literature supplied for the theory and, by the end of the course, I managed to spot all 10 submerged containers in less than 3 minutes.

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