First for a Yachtmaster Theory Exam?

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Good to hear that you are well and now have your next ticket.

Hope that you and all the lads (and lasses) come home safe,

Simes
 
Simes said:
Good to hear that you are well and now have your next ticket.

Hope that you and all the lads (and lasses) come home safe,

Simes
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I'm slightly confused: it was me doing the examining and instructing! I don't think I can get any more tickets unless I start watchkeeping on commercial shipping.

PS - I'm not into collecting tickets anyway.
 
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Mark-1 said:
Are you a part time sailing instructor and full time Army Vicar? Or t'other way round?
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Ahem.

I am a part time Examiner for the RYA (aren't we all?) I am also a Yachmaster Instructor (I worked part time as an instructor before I was invited to become an examiner, but I still instruct very occasionally)

I am a full time Chaplain Royal Navy (who happens to be Commando Trained and part of 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines so I wear a Green Beret and not a Navy Blue one)

Officially Commando Helicopter Forces is a Fleet asset, but you might say that its part of Brigade if you don't want to be too picky.

Now go and wash your mouth out for calling me Army :)

If you wonder why I sometimes comment on RF matters and VHF etc, I had a previous career at the Royal Radar establishment.
 
john_morris_uk said:
Ahem.

I am a part time Examiner for the RYA (aren't we all?) I am also a Yachmaster Instructor (I worked part time as an instructor before I was invited to become an examiner, but I still instruct very occasionally)

I am a full time Chaplain Royal Navy (who happens to be Commando Trained and part of 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines so I wear a Green Beret and not a Navy Blue one)

Officially Commando Helicopter Forces is a Fleet asset, but you might say that its part of Brigade if you don't want to be too picky.

Now go and wash your mouth out for calling me Army :)

If you wonder why I sometimes comment on RF matters and VHF etc, I had a previous career at the Royal Radar establishment.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I'd got completely the wrong idea from the occupation field of your profile.
 
snowleopard said:
Not the first to study in Aghanistan though. When I was selling the Complete Course I shipped a a copy to a BFPO out there.
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Ah well in that case I wonder whether he was the first one to be examined out here? Wonder what the chances of there being a candidate and an instructor here at the same time and linked up in the past?

Its on the RNSA website, so perhaps someone will come forward with some more information.
 
I do know of a Can pilot whose single-seat liferaft - on which he was sat - began to inflate, in flight. His 'bang seat' harness kept it from inflating fully, but he was half-strangled until the nav, weakened from laughter, managed to unstrap from his seat and somehow 'deal with it'.....

The outcome of that li'l episode was the aircrew knife, in a steel sheath, sewn onto the flying overall leg. It initially had a 'Bowie knife' shape, with a point, but that was superceded by one with a blunt 'point' and a concave-curved cutting blade, after someone at MoD(Procurement) forgot the earlier matter and chose a device suited to cutting parachute cords when entangled, in the water.

Oddly, I came across a website tody which advertised these things at £125. And old MoD Survival Booklets.... and liferaft/dinghy knives with rounded tips, which are functionally useless... and aircrew leather flying boots.... I'm in the money, I'm in the money....:D

Rumour had it that the only known examples of such entanglement were Sea Survival Instructors showing off....

;)
 
sarabande said:
More boating stuff away from the briny...

I am sure LC knows of a RAF team who 'sailed' a dinghy at 20000 ft.

http://www.portaboteme.com/everest.php

I wonder if they had done the Inland Waterways Helmsman's course ?
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The bit that made me chuckle in the blurb with the story was the line, "The men from the RAF Mountain Rescue Service took the folding Porta-Bote as a precaution against being stranded by melting glaciers."

Oh really - what's the chances of the truth behind the story that they thought 'we can set a world record with this caper' - and get some publicity and sponsorship? Who has EVER heard of mountaineers taking a boat up Everest in case of melting glaciers?

That's an even more transparent bit a of publicity seeking excuse than the RNSA releasing my teaching and examining a Yachtmaster Theory candidate in Afghanistan details!

Good luck to them - I wish I'd thought of it first (except I don't enjoy mountaineering very much.)
 
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john_morris_uk said:
Ahem.

I am a part time Examiner for the RYA (aren't we all?) I am also a Yachmaster Instructor (I worked part time as an instructor before I was invited to become an examiner, but I still instruct very occasionally)

I am a full time Chaplain Royal Navy (who happens to be Commando Trained and part of 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines so I wear a Green Beret and not a Navy Blue one)

Officially Commando Helicopter Forces is a Fleet asset, but you might say that its part of Brigade if you don't want to be too picky.

Now go and wash your mouth out for calling me Army :)

If you wonder why I sometimes comment on RF matters and VHF etc, I had a previous career at the Royal Radar establishment.
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While I appreciate your feelings about you your military appointments, having been a mere soldier myself, I am a little confused by your RYA positions.
Maybe things have changed since I retired from being a Yachtmaster Examiner, but in my rather long teaching and examining experience those who taught shore based theory courses were known as tutors and there was only one exam in the whole system which was the one conducted for several hours at sea by an examiner. Results of courses were achieved by, in the case of shore based theory, a series of assessment papers. Students on practical courses were continuously assessed by the instructor.
Have things changed that much in the last five years or so?
 
sarabande said:
More boating stuff away from the briny...

I am sure LC knows of a RAF team who 'sailed' a dinghy at 20000 ft.

http://www.portaboteme.com/everest.php

I wonder if they had done the Inland Waterways Helmsman's course ?
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I had a work colleague in the late 70's who was in the Guinness Book of Records for properly sailing at the highest altitude known, in a Mirror dinghy somewhere in South America.

Sadly, I cant find any record of it from Google :(
 
john_morris_uk said:
Before someone else spots it I'll put a link in.

http://www.rnsa.net/Sections/News.aspx?SectionID=36&ItemID=871

I know that a few people on the forums know where I've been for the last few months, but it appears that my cover has been blown. Hopefully I will be back in UK in a couple of weeks.
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I thought we all knew where you were as you said you were going there last year on this very forum. ;)

Go on tell everyone which documentary on Youtube you can be seen doing your stuff....very well, I should add.
 
Major Catastrophe said:
I thought we all knew where you were as you said you were going there last year on this very forum. ;)

Go on tell everyone which documentary on Youtube you can be seen doing your stuff....very well, I should add.
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I am not aware of being on Youtube - that's a new one on me!

I thought I'd told you in a pm - I don't recall making it public on the forum. If I did, I didn't mean to - and I didn't think the news would be published until I was back in the UK...
 
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