maby
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They were lucky that not all the boats in the area were the selfish beggars who seem to frequent this forum!
Mayday call from yacht sparks big response
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They were lucky that not all the boats in the area were the selfish beggars who seem to frequent this forum!
AMCD300
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They were lucky that not all the boats in the area were the selfish beggars who seem to frequent this forum!
Real men don't need VHF, GPS, EPIRB, flares, life rafts, lifejackets, motors (inboard or outboard), GRP or indeed anything boatie that was invented after 1976.
maby
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Why stop with that? The romans and vikings went all over the place without compass or sextant!
AMCD300
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Seajet
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Pedant / Anorak Warning;
I thought the Vikings used heated magnetised iron needles in a bowl, as a compass ?
PS, don't ask me how iron floats.
BrendanS
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Pedant / Anorak Warning;
I thought the Vikings used heated magnetised iron needles in a bowl, as a compass ?
PS, don't ask me how iron floats.
more likely lodestone than iron needles, as lodestone is a permanent magnet. You suspend from a cord, or float on water on a piece of wood or bark
Seajet
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Very true, which is why I'm fitting a 'momentary off then back on switch ' on the main VHF to avoid the PIA bleeping alarm , fitted a new cockpit speaker and am getting a better handheld than the incredibly user unfriendly mistake my old one was !
jerrytug
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To add to what Simon has written above,ignoring Dsc alarms won't ever help anybody either. Did you know you can stop the alarm by touching a button? If so it beggars belief that you would take the trouble to not use it by fitting a switch,and deliberately not read what might be a nearby mayday. That really wins the prize.Very true, which is why I'm fitting a 'momentary off then back on switch ' on the main VHF to avoid the PIA bleeping alarm , fitted a new cockpit speaker and am getting a better handheld than the incredibly user unfriendly mistake my old one was !
Tomahawk
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Coming back home up the .Crouch one weekend, we heard a PanPan... someone had gone aground on the Swallowtail bank. they seree taking on wate. A few minuted latr it escalated to a mayday.... We were in range and immediatelly spun round and headed AFAP to the area of the casuLty... a nearby fishing charter boat did the same...
The boat was sinking when the Clacton ILB got there first and took the people off.. Later we heard a PanPan saying there was a new wreck on the Swallowtail...
Your man did the right thing.....
The boat was sinking when the Clacton ILB got there first and took the people off.. Later we heard a PanPan saying there was a new wreck on the Swallowtail...
Your man did the right thing.....
Seajet
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Jerrytug,
I've done the course ta very much, though as I admit only remember the basics.
I should have been clearer; as a singlehander in the busy Solent I sometimes can't dash below to prod the VHF, and have a cockpit panel with nav instruments, lights etc so am adding the VHF to this; I already have tried various external speakers and Silva S12 waterpoof handheld, all with very disappointing results !
I presume you have the magic answer to listening to VHF and avoiding DSC alarms while singlehanding a 22' boat off Porsmouth then ?
You are the prize taker...
Lucky Duck
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Never found listening to the VHF and acknowledging the odd DSC alarm a particularly onerous activity - even when singlehanded. The boat is 35', not that it makes much difference.
jerrytug
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Quote AVOIDING DSC ALARMS unquote. Seajet I know you are messing about,but for any folk reading this thread who are trying to learn safe and responsible seamanship,it's dangerous BS of the highest order.
Those Andersons must be very badly designed if you can't let go to use the VHF anyway
Those Andersons must be very badly designed if you can't let go to use the VHF anyway
Seajet
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Now who's messing about ?
DSC is an inliction of the devil, and the alarms go right through my soul, I know I'm not the only one.
Yes I do listen to the VHF, and I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find a more safety conscious berk then me, anyone who knows me comments on this, but I get fed up turning the radio on and off and also it interrupts my singing along to Led Zep on the other station.
All comments about Andersons gratefully received, on the basis ' no such thing as bad publicity ' ; I just wish I'd gone into selling the things after all !
DSC is an inliction of the devil, and the alarms go right through my soul, I know I'm not the only one.
Yes I do listen to the VHF, and I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find a more safety conscious berk then me, anyone who knows me comments on this, but I get fed up turning the radio on and off and also it interrupts my singing along to Led Zep on the other station.
All comments about Andersons gratefully received, on the basis ' no such thing as bad publicity ' ; I just wish I'd gone into selling the things after all !
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