Koeketiene
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The boat is (alas) thousands of miles away.
SeasickPete
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SimonX
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Noo Orlins?
billskip
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Yep, it takes me back 45+years...
capnsensible
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Bubba does sailing
capnsensible
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Bubba does fine dining
SimonX
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About 23 for me. In Pat O’Briens with a guy called Irving Schrader who was a US Marine I met on a training course in the early ‘80s and kept in touch with, visted him in 2002, he passed away during COVID.
Bouba
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I think the anchor is the appropriate size.....although a slightly heavier Rocna would be more efficient....check the rode
john_morris_uk
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Today you get a video.
A virtual gin/beer to anyone who can identify where I am.
Bajansailor
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Blueboatman
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Sorry
I was a bit busy during daylight hours.
Would sir mind running that again with the lighthouse turned on please?
john_morris_uk
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You mean you want to cheat and check the light characteristic? R 10S 17M] Red flashing light with a period of 10 seconds and a range of 17 miles
john_morris_uk
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I wish. It’s 12C with a 10kn north-easterly wind that’s blowing right through me.Back in the Caribbean again?
Blueboatman
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Oh yes. If I had an almanac / admiralty list of lights with me-and even then,
Here’s an easy easy one with the same thin wind this morning . There is a lighthouse , well two actually)
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capnsensible
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The natives are friendly here.
Alicatt
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At the beginning of the month we did the night exercise on Timeless to Carrick Castle on Loch Goil, today we went out for a drive to Carrick Castle and just after we arrived who should turn up but Timeless with a squad of trainees on exercise.
From the night exercise:
From today Timeless arriving:
Thanks to You & Sea and the Edinburgh Marine Academy for a great time training on Timeless.
From the night exercise:
From today Timeless arriving:
Thanks to You & Sea and the Edinburgh Marine Academy for a great time training on Timeless.
john_morris_uk
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Ooh err. That’s interesting. I’m conducting some exams for them in a couple of weeks.
john_morris_uk
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The answer to mine was just off Isle de Cezambre, St Malo.Oh yes. If I had an almanac / admiralty list of lights with me-and even then,
Here’s an easy easy one with the same thin wind this morning . There is a lighthouse , well two actually)
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Blueboatman
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Aha
I discounted Scilly, Maitresse Ile and the ecrehous .
Perhaps interstingly -or worryingly- I tried asking AI referencing the light characteristics only.
It offered to me Wolf Rock light house or the Norfolk coast.
Now that I find a tad disconcerting for those more invested in the use of AI.
Talk about shades of forcing what you see through the binoculars at the end of a passage to “ fit”with where you ought to be by now. And with the added guile of a chatty electronic voice rhetoric ..
So my ‘ cheat/assist’ request that you kindly answered with the light characteristics MAY HAVE highlighted a chart table heads up against over reliance of AI in lieu of carrying proven sources of information onboard . What think you as an examiner, instructor?
No mariner should forego every sensible or reasonable source or opportunity to verify their position, that was how I was taught.
But the oh-so-seductively lazy AI-Not quite yet in all cases perhaps?
Anyways, lovely anchorage
Mine was of course Beachy Head from the E at Bexhill beach but we all knew that. I was watching the antics of Sammy the Seal but the sun came out for a photo op.
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Alicatt
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It was a James that conducted our Day Skipper Practical, the night exercise was in really quite bad conditions going up Loch Long, vis was down to a few hundred meters and keeping to the channel and out of the restricted zone while being watched by the patrol boat certainly kept us on our toes. The other candidate took us there just as it was getting dark and I took us back. To my great relief the transits and marks we had plotted before the voyage all worked out quite well. Then we got back to Helensburgh and the Navy had turned off some of the navigation buoys and marks, made an interesting last few minutes of the trip.
Next day we did the final full exercise which was going to be a circumnavigation of the Isle of Bute but due to the weather James told us to cut it short and just go to the narrows and then back to Rothsey, it had got rough enough from the start of storm Amy that Rothsey was shut. Still we came back at 22knots in a 1m following sea, that little boat is quite nice to helm, we finished up the day with ferry gliding around the marina which was fun and quite different to how my own boat handles.
