my conclusions to how long have you been boating

[powerskipper]

Well forumtairums [ long word]
I have done my sums with the help of a calculator and have added up the odd 75 replies [ many thanks for that]

This is my conclusions, you can make your own up but here is mine.

Total of 1232 years of boating was logged,

449988 days [ including leap years]

Roughly broken down into

75 years of other water activities

342 years as raggies

791 years as stinkpots

Those with the greatest experience seem to have learnt from there peers and the newer less experienced seem to have gone though some kind of training but not all.
So there is a great wealth of experience by those that posted and in comparison I feel a newbee , But will keep learning so one day I mite get there too./forums/images/icons/smile.gif


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[Solitaire]

Ah, but not so much how LONG you've been doing it, but HOW you been doing it!

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[duncan]

damm and I thought it was how long you had been enjoying it............/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Solitaire]

That goes without saying/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[longjohnsilver]

Sums!

Better get that calculator out again, nuthin adds up! ;-))

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[powerskipper]

Re: Sums!

sorry /forums/images/icons/blush.gif /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
lost 24 years , mis type, not that easy as some had been boating for over a hundred years and ............. /forums/images/icons/shocked.gif Bit jumbled up . Did my best. Still impressive amount of years even with missing 24 years on MoBo. /forums/images/icons/cool.gif

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[BarryH]

Re: Sums!

Its all academic, means bugger all. Get three people on here to work out a passage plan from point a to b on a certain date with the same tides and you'll end up with 6 different answers!

Boatone don't count, he uses road maps.
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[BrendanS]

Re: Sums!

Wot's a passage plan and is it something I should be doing, and what are tides. It's great this forum, I 'm learning loads

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[longjohnsilver]

Passage plan

How to get from the snug to the lounge bar, straight across the passage, better have a double b4 trying it. Isn't tide made by the same company as surf? I normally use persil.

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[BrendanS]

Re: Passage plan

That's OK then, I can do that blindfolded. Thought it might have been some tricky boating stuff.

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[Forbsie]

Re: Sums!

I was looking for you last friday to do a passage plan from the office to the Jack Horner but couldn't find you anywhere. I wouldn't have minded any route coz there's always another pub in the middle./forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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[BarryH]

Re: Passage plan

Don't like Persil, not enough blue whiteners. Omo was good but they stopped doing that. Is the Daz challenge still running, who won that.

As for learning, yup, done a load of that here. I've learn't that it takes at least 6 boats 20 odd people to toast a Moose. It takes col 3 sets of props to realize what a spanner and prop nut is for. Gravity plays a big part in getting from wareham quay into the cockpit of a sportsfisher. Happy1 is truely derranged and mad. Theres life after Volvo. Gonefishing, although living in Wales, is not actually Welsh. Just cos bouys are shown on a chart as being lit are not always where they should be and the buggers don't change a bulb when they should do.

So learn't quite a bit on here, most of it useless

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[BarryH]

Re: Sums!

I phoned you when I finished, which was about lunch time. You cut me off or rejected the call, so I thought you must have been busy. Funnily enuff, I'm back up there on friday seeing Ann again!!!

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[hlb]

Re: Passage plan

Weres this power skipper wench come from any way, we have been quietly chewing the cud on here for Harrys years. I vote for Power skipper playing the part of Harry as the ships cat in the Pussy in Boats Pantomine This christmas. But wheres Pauline to do the pussy bit!!

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[Forbsie]

Re: Sums!

Was that you? I'm back to using my old Nokia which has the habit of switching itself off as soon as you touch it and doesn't give any clue who called. Give me a minute to re-boot it and call back. I'm due for another new one but need one that won't fall out of my pocket every time I fall down drunk. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[boatone]

Road Maps

What a scurillous thing to say.....of course I use Road Maps!
I was weaned on the Rules Of The Road, none of this modern mumbo jumbo lingo of colregs and other arty farty avbbreviations/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
I have always valued my Full Scale admiralty charts far too highly to desecrate their surfaces with pencil scribbles whereas I find the back of road maps perfectly suited for quick calculations and vector drawings so essential to true born and bred mariner attitudes to safe navigation. Some of my earlier annotations for a voyage to India are to be seen in my journals which were highly valued by Battie when the Antiques Roadshow came here a year or two ago.................how many fleeting electronic images of plotter screens will be available to future generations?
(and who dares to use a chinagraph pencil on the cheap perspex sliding hatch covers of so called state-of-the-art cruisers as we so often did on the glass sheet covering the superbly crafted mahogany chart tables of byegone days.
Progress...............humbug sir!

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[ccscott49]

Re: Road Maps

Pardon??

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[boatone]

Re: Road Maps

oh Colin,........I thought you, at least, would understand...........

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[ccscott49]

Re: Road Maps

I do, I do, but where would you need a vector diagram on the thames, I mean up river?? I sue a pad of paper rather than my admiralty charts, (folded not stirred)

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[hlb]

Re: Road Maps

You got that auto pilot thiny working yet? You'll have to work out all the vectors and angles for that, not discounting current and wind strength of course.

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