Isolated navigational hazards

[sailbadthesinner]

they can have it
we've robbed anything worth having from it
even the cats tails!

This isn't an office, its hell with strip lighting

 

[Spacewaist]

Think big

Forget Ireland - childs play. What about North America. Kill two Bushes with one stone, so to speak, and gives us direct access to the Pacific..

A pontification from the Panjandrum of orotund bloviation AD2002

 

[jimmie]

Re: Think big

Mr Spaceman, personally I always think big. I'm a B cup just now but want to be a C. Another of the many advantages of your proposal is that we would only have one tide a day instead of two! Whats' a panjandrum, is it big? I'm of slavic descent where are you from?

 

[Jacket]

Re: Think big

Is the second tide due to the USA then? And there was me blaming it on the moon!

 

[claymore]

Re: Jimmie hands off

I'm glad you said nearly then - thought I'd missed something.

regards
Claymore

 

[claymore]

Jimi
have you ever been to the Macormic Isles - Just north of Gigha - there's a sod in there that someone tried to get rid of - without much success. The CCC directions give a really good description of where it is - I touch it every time!

regards
Claymore

 

[jimi]

Claysie, never been there although I'd love to take the boat up there. Reckon I'd need 2 months off to appreciate it and the kiddies are at an age where money is just soaked up, so I can't see that for at least 5 years.

 

[jimmie]

Re: Think big

Being a stupid woman I do'nt really understand these things but I've had a lot of time to read recently and I've been studying astrology. Now according to this the moon goes round the earth once every 28 days. This confused me because I thought that with two tides a day it must go round the earth twice a day but apparently not. However the earth does rotate once a day so if the eath were completely covered in water we'd only get one tide a day. you know when you're in the bath and you manage to get a wave slopping back and forward, my understanding is that the initial wave is the first tide due to the effect of the moon's gravity with the second tide being the slop back. I understand in the Pacific there is only one tide every 24 hours.

 

[Jacket]

Re: Think big

i'm never quite sure when you're being serious (if ever?) but I'll pretend that you are being and post a reply, as its better than working.

If the earth was totally covered in water, we'd get two tides a day - one when we're nearest the moon, and one when we're furthest from the moon. These two tides are due to a compimation of the gravitational pull of the moon and the centripetal force caused by the earths rotation.

These tides would have a height of about 3m at the latitude of the UK. Any additional rise in the tide is due, as you say, to the tide slopping back and forwards between land masses - this is known as resonance.

 

[claymore]

Approval to visit form

One weekend next summer - meet you off the train at Glasgow Central?

regards
Claymore

 

[jimi]

Re: Approval to visit form

I'll take you up on that, see if we can drag Para out as well?

 

[claymore]

Re: Approval to visit form

Spot On
Gentlemans Weekend Cruise

regards
Claymore

 

[tcm]

Organisational disaster looms.

This won't work - you're all scottish! So the guy on the train will be drunk, the guy meeting the train will still be in the pub, and if two scots are on the same train there'll be a fight, won't there?

 

[jimi]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

That's not a disaster, its a plan coallescing!

 

[claymore]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

We could top it off by having a Rep from Bratfud

regards
Claymore

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

Train............?? I'm no legging it frae one end tae other at Carstairs. Wharra aboot easyjet? Abbotsinch is it nae closer than glesgae central to Melfort?

When?

There's a chance we'll be in Melfort at New Year - I'll bring a clootie tae gie Claymore a wipe doon. Jist gies the word........

 

[claymore]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

Jings - Ah'll be the talk O' the anchorage
" S'cuse me chaps - (call them chaps, good for morale and By God they love me for it) - Ah'm jest awa tae pick up ma Bow man - he's flyin in fer ra weekend.
Och Para - Ah widnae hear O' ye wipin her bottom - wee jamesie will see tae that as he's a train passenger - no one who flies in cuid possibly be expected tae wairk!

regards
Claymore

 

[jimi]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

Och ah'll drive up. Ah'll pick ye baith up oan ra way jist as lang as ye dinna mind parking oan ra M6 fur a while!

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

Could take my estate up? Loads of "tinctures" and rations in that?

 

[jimi]

Re: Organisational disaster looms.

Och mon ah hope the yat will be set up chust sublime wi' heating an wan o' them new fangled electric winches h wid get richt scunnert heavin' in a' that rusty auld chain by haun. Dae ye dae fried tattie scones fur brekkie?